Jockey does not find modems as ALSA subdevices

Sorry, variable is SLMODEMD_DEVICE.

Thanks for your report. Can you please give me the contents of /proc/asound/cards for this?

What is the exact contents of /etc/default/sl-modem-daemon? This is the first report which says that this file is needed for sl-modem-daemon, usually it should "just work". The reason may be that sl-modem-daemon looks in to /proc/asound/cards itself, can't find it, and thus needs to be told which device to talk to.

my /proc/asound/cards is:
pecisk@pecisk-laptop:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                      HDA Intel at 0xf4700000 irq 16

About /etc/default/sl-modem-daemon - yes, it is strange. By default, this file has such look:

# NOTE: settings in /etc/defautls/slmodemd are used too

# set this to 1 to never run the daemon from the init script
# you can set it if you have an USB device, than the init script won't
# be started at boot (but when the USB device is plugged on)
DONTSTART=0

# This is the default configuration for the slmodem driver daemon
# running on Debian systems.
#
# Edit device node and country code here ...
#
# possible country codes are:
#
# USA
# GERMANY
# BELGIUM
# etc.
#
# use 'slmodemd --countrylist' to check out other countries
#
#
#SLMODEMD_DEVICE=slamr0
#SLMODEMD_COUNTRY=GERMANY

SLMODEMD_DEVICE=auto
SLMODEMD_COUNTRY=USA

#
# Additional options for slmodemd, see "slmodemd -h" output for details.
# Do NOT set country or device name here!

OPTS=""

# force the start of the daemon even if old type modules seem to be
# installed (set it to 1)

FORCESTART=0

# set this to not see any hints of the init script on startup

# BEQUIET=1

# set this to not create the /dev/modem symlink

# NOSYMLINK=1

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But to get card working I must provide device name just like this (skipping most of the part):
SLMODEMD_DEVICE=hw:0,6 instead of SLMODEMD_DEVICE=auto

I just checked /etc/init.d/sl-modem-daemon and your suspicions are confirmed, it greps same /proc/asound/cards. So it is bug in two places, init.d script for slmodemd and jockey, caused by something that has changed output in /proc/asound/cards.

I reported bug about sl-modem-daemon init.d script here, see https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sl-modem/+bug/298424

Thanks. I think we should rather fix it in sl-modem itself, so that people who install it manually still get the right thing.

Sure it should be fixed in sl-modem, but Jockey still needs to rise a flag and give common user to enable this modem easily :)

Created patch for jockey/data/handlers/sl_modem.py. It checks aplay -l (after /proc/asound/cards check is failed to detect modem) for "Modem" string. If it finds it, it returns True as it should.

Again, corrected patch. Geany did a nasty trick with tabs. This is correct patch so sl_modem.py doesn't get borked.

Wontfix upstream, the sl-modem handler is Ubuntu specific.

Patch needs updating to not use shell=True (replace with env= and array), and some whitespace fixing (alignment, 4 spaces for indentation), and docstring formatting (PEP-8), but looks fine in general. I'll clean that up when committing.

Thank you!

Note to self: when sponsoring this, include patch in bug 334252

Ignore my previous comment, wrong bug.

I cleaned up the patch a bit and committed:

  http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-core-dev/jockey/ubuntu/revision/307

I'll upload this after the alpha-5 freeze.

This bug was fixed in the package jockey - 0.5-0ubuntu2

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jockey (0.5-0ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low

  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * Merge bug fixes from trunk:
    - Replace Exception.message with str(Exception), since .message is
      deprecated in Python 2.6.
  * Python transition: Build for all Python versions again, to work
    with 2.6. Include links in the .deb, bump python-central
    build dependency for this.
  * debian/rules: Drop DEB_PYTHON_INSTALL_ARGS_ALL setting;
    --no-compile is set by default nowadays, and explicitly setting it
    hides python-distutils.mk's --install-layout option.
  * data/handlers/sl_modem.py: Recognize modems which are subdevices
    of alsa cards, and thus only appear in "aplay -l", not in
    /proc/asound/cards. Thanks to Peteris Krisjanis for the patch!
    (LP: #295158)

  [ Mario Limonciello ]
  * data/handlers/broadcom_wl.py:
    - if we don't offer b43 at all with the card, and the Broadcom STA
      driver is loaded, it is implicitly "enabled". (LP: #288211)

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:04:16 +0100