Conexant Modem and Mandrake 9.1

[Jordan_NZ]

Well, here goes.

I have been trying for about a week to get my PC connected to the Net with Mandrake 9.1. I am able to use the modem fine when I boot up to Windoze. I had a winmodem, but after several days of trying to get it to work (with no luck), I went out and bought an internal modem and installed it and turned off the winmodem in BIOS.

I rebooted and the new modem worked fine in XP, but still didn't work in Mandrake. So, I re-installed Mandrake, hoping that it would detect the new modem on install. Still, nothing. So I went to http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hsf/downloads-mdk-x86.html and downloaded the driver for my modem (http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hsf/archive/hsflinmodem-5.03.27lnxtbeta03042700/hsflinmodem-5.03.27lnxtbeta03042700k2.4.21_0.13mdk-1mdk.i586.rpm) and version of Mandrake (kernel 2.4.21-0.13). Once installed, this took me from "no modem" to being able to query the modem (once I did "hsfconfig" and found out that the modem is at /dev/ttySHSF0).

I have searched here, in several other forums and in Google Linux. I have found a couple of others who have had similar problems over the last few years, but the threads either end without resolution, or after trying what they did, I still come up with a modem that doesn't connect under Mandrake.

When I query the modem, I get this:
ATI:5600
ATI1:255
ATI2:
ATI3:Linuxsoftk56_V5.03.27Inxtbeta03042700
ATI4:Conexant Softk56 Data modem for Linux
ATI5:7E
ATI6:
ATI7:

The Log Script Debug Window shows this:
OK
MTM1L3
OK
ATDT3294333
NO DIALTONE

As I mentioned, the modem device is /dev/ttySHSFO and I tried all other possible modem devices in the drop-down list. I have tried telling Mandrake not to wait for a dial tone . . .

Any suggestions (while I still have some hair) would be greatly appreciated.

[Ryochan7]

I know this doesn't help, but I don't understand. I thought that just about all internal modems were winmodems. Are there any internal modems that are not classified as winmodems?

Jordan_NZ, you probably would have been better off to get an external modem to use for Mandrake, preferably one that connects to a serial port. I didn't even bother to try to configure my internal modem when I first started using Mandrake 9.1, because of what I have heard about people trying to make a winmodem work on Linux. Instead, I just went out and bought an external modem. It cost me about $50 but it was very easy to get working with Mandrake.

[leonpmu]

use their query tool to see if you have a supported modem?

Also if you have installed the RPM, it does in fact, make a symlink to /dev/modem, I did this just the other day on a clients PC, all I had to do was install the rpm and he modem worked great!!

Use kppp and tell it use /dev/modem, and then query the modem.

[JusKickNit]

I've installed these drivers under many distro's and Mandrake was the hardest. I think I ended up using the general rpm driver's not the Mandrake specific ones. And I installed kppp and did away with that Mandrake Control Panel config tool.


Not sure if it's consider a winmodem, but it's a software controled modem. The linuxant drivers work quite well actually.

[o0zi]

It's a Winmodem. Have you checked all your cables are connected properly? Nothing seems to be wrong on the software side.

[Jordan_NZ]

Originally posted by JusKickNit
I've installed these drivers under many distro's and Mandrake was the hardest. I think I ended up using the general rpm driver's not the Mandrake specific ones. And I installed kppp and did away with that Mandrake Control Panel config tool.


Not sure if it's consider a winmodem, but it's a software controled modem. The linuxant drivers work quite well actually.

Can you use general rpm drivers and not the Mandrake specific ones? Where I downloaded the driver, there was a caution about being sure to have the right version of driver, so I assumed that using one not made for Mandrake would be even worse.

I wish the linuxant drivers worded as well for me. ;)

[Jordan_NZ]

Originally posted by o0zi
It's a Winmodem. Have you checked all your cables are connected properly? Nothing seems to be wrong on the software side.

Well, this modem is a lot more compatible than the one that came with the PC - I have gotten much farther with it, anyway.

Yes, all my cables and such are connected. I am using the same modem now in Windows.

[Jordan_NZ]

Originally posted by leonpmu
use their query tool to see if you have a supported modem?

Also if you have installed the RPM, it does in fact, make a symlink to /dev/modem, I did this just the other day on a clients PC, all I had to do was install the rpm and he modem worked great!!

Use kppp and tell it use /dev/modem, and then query the modem.

I have installed RPM and I tried /dev/modem (and all other options from the drop-down menu) in KPPP. I told it to use each option (in turn) and queried the modem each time. The only place it worked was where hsfconfig told me it was located (/dev/ttySHSFO).

When I say "worked", I mean this was the only selection from the list that didn't return a not found error.

[JusKickNit]

Originally posted by Jordan_NZ
Can you use general rpm drivers and not the Mandrake specific ones? Where I downloaded the driver, there was a caution about being sure to have the right version of driver, so I assumed that using one not made for Mandrake would be even worse.

I wish the linuxant drivers worded as well for me. ;)





Can't Hurt, It was either Redhat or Mandrake that I had to install the general modem drivers rpms. If don't work you havn't lost anything.

Do this
rpm -e hsflinmodem.rpm
rpm -ivh hsfloinmodem-general.rpm
hsfconfig <-- If you get an error here then it wont work

If it dosn't work just rpm -e hsflinmodem.rpm, and install the original one.