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| Thread ID: 41442 | 2004-01-11 09:03:00 | Conexant Linmodem - full drivers for free? | Ender (5019) | Press F1 |
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| 206701 | 2004-01-11 09:03:00 | Modems. Winmodems. Linmodems. Actually I have got it going with a linmodem driver thing from www.linuxant.com but its limited to 14.4kbps if you don't pay US$15 for the full drivers. Sad. So is there anywhere else I might get full speed linmodem drivers? I downloaded scanModem linmodems.technion.ac.il , (which I found from PC World July 03 'How To' Tux Love section p108) ScanModem told me that I have a: Conexant HSF 56k HSFi Modem Class 0780: 14f1:2f00 (rev 01) Subsystem: 14f1:2004 Any help on that front would be greatly appreciated. Oh, and how do you dial up to the internet? I'm using kppp which requires that you type your root password. I assume there is a simpler program. Thanks, -Ender |
Ender (5019) | ||
| 206702 | 2004-01-11 11:23:00 | The older versions of the drivers were free and can still be found. A google for "hsflinmodem" will turn some RPMs. | bmason (508) | ||
| 206703 | 2004-01-11 20:42:00 | Yeah, but consider the number of HSF modems, multiply by the number of Linux distros, multiplied by the number of Linux distro versions, then multiply that by the number of versions of each driver, and the chances of finding the right one decrease somewhat. Just searching on 'hsflinmodem' gets 3,850 results. But I will wade through trying to find something useful if you say so. |
Ender (5019) | ||
| 206704 | 2004-01-11 21:25:00 | Google for scanModem.gz Its a Linux utility for scanning WinModems. Hopefully it'll tell you a few more specifics about what to search for :-) |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 206705 | 2004-01-11 21:56:00 | > ScanModem told me that I have a... Didn't Ender already do that? ;) I'm also looking for a Linux driver for my Conexant modem... but I didn't get scanmodem to do anything ?:| |
agent (30) | ||
| 206706 | 2004-01-12 02:33:00 | Here's a couple of google search strings: for KPP root problem, "kppp site:easynet.be" for Conexant HSFi modem: "conexant hsfi linux" |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 206707 | 2004-01-12 05:22:00 | Perhaps you should look on the modem itself for the Telepermit sticker - the one on my modem says "Puretek PT 3515", which is the manufacturer and model - scanmodem only told me the chipset on it. Unfortunately Puretek don't make Linux drivers, and this list (www.grapevine.net) says it has only been found to work as a winmodem so far. But given the right places to look, you should be able to find something out. |
agent (30) | ||
| 206708 | 2004-01-12 10:16:00 | I've got all the modem specs and so on, ScanModem told me what they were, and from the site Linuxant.com I got a working driver speed limited to 14.4kbps as I said. So really I have got over the worst problems, seeing if it goes. It does. But now what I need are full speed drivers. I had found an old beta linuxant.com driver before posting here, but it was for a different kernel or linux version or something - it didn't work anyway. So I went back to the 14.4kbps one. Yes Chilling_Silently, I have already got scanModem, and it worked perfectly :D - told me all I needed to know about what drivers I needed... but not where to find them :( Grahem L - is this the solution?: "Problems. Kppp asks for my rootpassword when i want to connect. RH 6.1 has decided that kppp should be autheticated using PAM instead of suid-ed root. The easiest way to beat this is to replace the following line inside your /etc/pam.d/kppp from: #auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_rootok.so to auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_permit.so " Agent - did you look in the text file that scanModem generates in the directory its installed to? I can't remember what its called, but someone else will know. Does anything matter other than the chipset and kernel version and the rest of what scanModem tells you? -Ender |
Ender (5019) | ||
| 206709 | 2004-01-12 10:18:00 | You will have to get the generic i386 or src package and compile it for your kernel. The RPM installer should do it fairly automatically provided you have the kernel-source package installed. |
bmason (508) | ||
| 206710 | 2004-01-12 11:24:00 | I've got an HCF Conexant chipset, not HSF. Scanmodem told me everything I needed to know (though I had been to linuxant.com before, but I was not at all pleased to see a stupid company (for want of better words) asking for US dollars just so I could get my modem working in Linux. I tried the free HCF source download (not RPM), compiled it all fine, installed it fine, but running hcfpciconfig eventually complains about an error (can't remember it) once it gets past finding out where my kernel libraries are (something like that). Just for the sake of it, I also tried the HSF source, which works perfectly fine, as compared to the HCF source - except I have an HCF modem. Running an Internet Configuration Wizard thing from Fedora didn't detect the modem, even after restarting network services. I also tried an external modem, but Kudzu couldn't detect it, and frankly it's not as if I need internet access from Linux - it'd just be a convenience. |
agent (30) | ||
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