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Registered: 2013-11-17

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Agere softmodem

I'm using an "ID 047e:2892 Agere Systems, Inc. (Lucent) Systems Soft Modem" on Windows 7 for sending and receiving Fax documents.
So I wanted to move that to Arch. Unfortunately it wasn't as easy as I thought (it was a matter of plug&play on Win actually) so I'll need some help if you could.

Basically I compiled "slmodem" and installed hylafax and have two problems:
- when I use minicom to check some AT commands it'll sometimes become sluggish or freeze and I have to kill it
- the slmodemd command actually seems to fail because I always get "NO CARRIER" or "no local dial tone" in minicom/hylafax.

I compiled slmodem with alsa option:

$ cd slmodem-2.9.11-20110321/modem
$ make SUPPORT_ALSA=1

So here's what I entered

$ sudo ./slmodemd -a hw:0
error: mixer setup: Off-hook switch not found for card hw:0
SmartLink Soft Modem: version 2.9.11 Feb  4 2015 11:23:52
symbolic link `/dev/ttySL0' -> `/dev/pts/12' created.
modem `hw:0' created. TTY is `/dev/pts/12'
Use `/dev/ttySL0' as modem device, Ctrl+C for termination.
error: cannot set channels for playback: Invalid argument
error: cannot set channels for playback: Invalid argument

The last two lines appeared when I issued ATDT dial commands in minicom, so I suspect the first "off-hook error blabla" line is where the no-dialtone prob occurs?

I'm not using any ALSA config file, here's the output

$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC892 Analog [ALC892 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: ALC892 Digital [ALC892 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Loopback [Loopback], device 0: Loopback PCM [Loopback PCM]
  Subdevices: 8/8
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
  Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
  Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
  Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
  Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
card 1: Loopback [Loopback], device 1: Loopback PCM [Loopback PCM]
  Subdevices: 8/8
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
  Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
  Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
  Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
  Subdevice #7: subdevice #7