MikeC
06-08-2003, 05:41 PM
I'm new to this, so I hope I have the right place for the question:
I installed SuSE 8.1 Personal a couple of weeks ago and everything has gone very smoothly - apart from the modem.
Having spent most of the intervening time searching the internet, it's obvious I'm not the only one - so if anyone can help me I'd be very grateful.
The modem is a Hayes (Zoom) product. The chipset is a conexant HCF, so it's a controllerless "winmodem", ostensibly capable of V.92. It has it's own serial port which is known as COM3 in Windows.
The result of my searching was the linuxant drivers which I''ve installed using YaST, then configured with hcfpciconfig. This didn't seem to change anything and below is where I am today:
I know the linixant drivers would only get me V.90 and that the V.92 'features' are not implemented.
dev/modem points to dev/ttyS2
dev/ttyS2 says it is a character device, (as seemingly do most of the pointers in the dev/ folder) - I don't know what this means.
Note that there is also a modem.old pointer that says it is a character device.
In YaST the modem config says the following:
Modems to configure:
--> Other (not detected)
Already Configured Devices:
--> Modem
Configured as ppp0 with provider "xyz"
(I'm pretty sure I added that last bit in my attempts to get the thing running.)
The modem works absolutely fine under Windows.
uname -r reveals the kernel as 2.4.19-4GB
The linuxant driver I installed was:
hcfpcimodem-0.99lnxbeta03042700k2.4.19_4GB-1.suse.1586.rpm
dev/ttySHCF0 says that it is a character device
dev/cuaHCF0 says that it is a character device
The log for KInternet says (summarised)
Starting Connection
WvDial (v1.42)
Initialize
Sending ATZ
Sending ATQ0
Resending ATZ
Modem not responding
pppd died (exit code 8)
The PC is:
Gigabtye 7VAXP mobo
Ti 4200
XP2000+
512 MB
Windows is on the Primary Master
Linux is on the Secondary Master
Any help gratefully received.
Thanks,
Mike
I installed SuSE 8.1 Personal a couple of weeks ago and everything has gone very smoothly - apart from the modem.
Having spent most of the intervening time searching the internet, it's obvious I'm not the only one - so if anyone can help me I'd be very grateful.
The modem is a Hayes (Zoom) product. The chipset is a conexant HCF, so it's a controllerless "winmodem", ostensibly capable of V.92. It has it's own serial port which is known as COM3 in Windows.
The result of my searching was the linuxant drivers which I''ve installed using YaST, then configured with hcfpciconfig. This didn't seem to change anything and below is where I am today:
I know the linixant drivers would only get me V.90 and that the V.92 'features' are not implemented.
dev/modem points to dev/ttyS2
dev/ttyS2 says it is a character device, (as seemingly do most of the pointers in the dev/ folder) - I don't know what this means.
Note that there is also a modem.old pointer that says it is a character device.
In YaST the modem config says the following:
Modems to configure:
--> Other (not detected)
Already Configured Devices:
--> Modem
Configured as ppp0 with provider "xyz"
(I'm pretty sure I added that last bit in my attempts to get the thing running.)
The modem works absolutely fine under Windows.
uname -r reveals the kernel as 2.4.19-4GB
The linuxant driver I installed was:
hcfpcimodem-0.99lnxbeta03042700k2.4.19_4GB-1.suse.1586.rpm
dev/ttySHCF0 says that it is a character device
dev/cuaHCF0 says that it is a character device
The log for KInternet says (summarised)
Starting Connection
WvDial (v1.42)
Initialize
Sending ATZ
Sending ATQ0
Resending ATZ
Modem not responding
pppd died (exit code 8)
The PC is:
Gigabtye 7VAXP mobo
Ti 4200
XP2000+
512 MB
Windows is on the Primary Master
Linux is on the Secondary Master
Any help gratefully received.
Thanks,
Mike