AVM Fritz PCI rev. 2

Support knowledgebase (hvogel_fritz2)
Applies to

SuSE Linux: Versions 7.1 to 7.2
This article refers to an older version of SuSE Linux. Therefore some of the informations given in this article may be outdated or the article may contain stale links.

Symptom

You try to configure your new ISDN card, model Fritz Card PCI rev. 2. Neither this card is recognized by YaST2 nor can you configure it manually by using YaST1/hisax.

Cause

AVM has issued a new version of the Fritz Card PCI which is unfortunately not supported by the current ISDN drivers included in your SuSE Linux version. This card will be recognized as follows when you type in the command lspci -v as user root:

00:0a.0 Network controller: AVM Audiovisuelles MKTG & Computer System
GmbH:
Unknown device 0e00 (rev 01)
Subsystem: AVM Audiovisuelles MKTG & Computer System GmbH:
Unknown device 0e00
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10
Memory at e7000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
I/O ports at e800
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

Solution

Unfortunately this card has only been issued recently and therefore is not supported by SuSE Linux 7.1 / 7.2. However, you can obtain drivers for SuSE Linux directly from the manufacturer at:

ftp://ftp.avm.de/cardware/fritzcrd.pci/linux/

Please contact the manufacturer concerning questions related to the configuration and operation of the driver program. The following text is supposed to provide you with information on the basic configuration only. Please understand that support for the AVM-CAPI cannot be provided from our side within the scope of the free of charge installation support.
Please download the driver from AVM directly. The driver suits on one floppy disk . If you do not have access to the internet on your machine you have the alternative to download the driver with another PC. The following driver is neccessary:

ftp://ftp.avm.de/cardware/fritzcrd.pci/linux/fcpci-suse7.2-03.09.10.tar.gz
(The example refers to the fitting driver for the SuSE Linux version 7.2, the versions may diversify)

Copy the driver where applicable to floppy disk and insert the disk in your linux machine. Log in to the graphical user interface and open a terminal (in KDE the seashell symbol in the panel) and log in as user root:
su -
enter root password

mount the floppy device

mount /media/floppy
now please copy the driver and change to the directory /tmp
cp /media/floppy/* /tmp
cd /tmp
unpack the driver
tar xvzf fcpci-suse*
and change to the new directory
cd fritz
and install the driver with
./install
afterwards please reboot your system and log in as user root again.
Supplementary the documentation is included. You can find the documentation in /usr/share/doc/CAPI4Linux/en/install_passive.txt

Now you can check the connection, please start with
pppd call isdn/avm usepeerdns
 resp.
pppd call isdn/avm numberprefix 0 usepeerdns
if you have to dial a "0" first, to estabish an external trunk line.
If the test operates very good, you can configure the internet access. Please change to directory /etc/ppp/peers/isdn and copy the test connection .
cd /etc/ppp/peers/isdn/
cp avm my_dialup
Edit the file my_dialup to your requirements. Further information and examples are to be found in the AVM documentation .
(/usr/share/doc/CAPI4Linux/en/install_passive.txt)
Then establish the connection with
pppd call isdn/my_dialup

Keywords: ISDN, AVM, FRITZ, PCI

Categories: ISDN

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