Conextant internal Modem

[HuiLai]

Yeah that's right.. i was told that i had a winmodem! Well it turns out i do. BUT there is a fix! YAY! Microsoft no longer rules my computer. Well maybe they do but i'm rebelling. Anyway,

Step 1. Know your Distro. DUH!

Step 2. Know your Kernal Version

Step 3. If you have a Conextant modem (which you should if you are reading this) then you need to know if it is HCF (Controllerless) type or an HSF(softmodem). The way i found this out was through redhat's kudzu. If you can't find out what type.. DON'T SWEAT IT go to step 4.

Step 4. If you know what your type is (HCF or HSF): download the rpm(or source for the dorkies, personally i'm a dork) from THIS SITE!!!!!!!!!!! (http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv/). Look at them menu's on the left.
If you don't know what type: download both of them and install one at a time, It will let you know if they don't work.

Step 5. Install or compile, this may take a bit and not really seem like anything is happening. PATIENCE you little speedbaby. READ MESSAGES CAREFULLY they will tell you how to change the settings and what the symlink is.

Step 6. Don't blame me if your computer turns into a angry robot and starts making other robots to create a robot army of angry-yet-smart robots to kill mankind and eat our brains. (IE don't blame me if it breaks something or doesn't work, doi!)

Step 7. Set up your PPP program using the info from the install or compile.

Step 8. Skip to step 9

Step 9. Connect

Step 10. Surf the web

Step 11. Thank me for helping you.

--Hui

[JP83]

But how i can install HCF driver to Debian there are no DEB packages and rpms will not work... will i just have to wait for drivers. :( :rolleyes:

[HuiLai]

Nah just get the source code. then ./configure (if it has it) or su then password then make and then make install.

[jaygee432]

I used that same basic procedure to install a Conexant HSF modem earlier, and more recently a Jaton Wincruise II with a Conexant smartHSF chipset in Slack 8.1. If your kernal does not have it by default, then I believe one more step is necessary, recompile so that it has support for at least a pentium processor with MMX (as I recall) enhancements.

[TheChuckster]

Nice job! I just got done getting Linux to work online with my Conexant modem. Annoying thing...

Anyhow, I had to disable some of the services to get my ISP to work. I will later try to experiment and find out which service is the bad one (prolly the packet filters).

Linux is really nice. I am using Mozilla right now in fact... :) That's one more converted ex-Windows user!

[fancypiper]

Don't forget to check the Linux Documentation Project howtos as well. :D

Conexant/Rockwell modem HOWTO (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Conexant+Rockwell-modem-HOWTO/)

[ViMan]

I'm having trouble configuring my Conexant Rockwell modem. I've checked that it's supported and it is. I ran the program listmdm.exe under Windows XP (Windows XP saw it automatically and I was able to surf the web with no problems). The following are the results returned by listmdm:

SYSTEM INFORMATION
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Date: 12/31/2002
ListMdm Ver: 1.6
Windows OS: Microsoft Windows XP
Build Number: 2600

RESULT OF MODEM QUERY
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Number of Modems Found = 1

MODEM #1:
PCI CONFIGURATION INFORMATION READ:
VENDOR ID: 14F1
DEVICE ID: 2F00
SUBVENDOR ID: 14F1
SUBDEVICE ID: 2004
REVISION ID: 01

DEDUCED INFORMATION:
VENDOR NAME: CONEXANT
DEVICE NAME: HSF CHURCHILL DATA/FAX
SUBVENDOR NAME: ACTIONTEC, ZOLTRIX, ACEEX, TAICOM OR ASUS --
HTTP://WWW.ACTIONTEC.COM/ HTTP://WWW.TAICOM.COM
HTTP://WWW.ASUS.COM.TW/COMPANY/
FOR 14F1/ICH GO TO -- DELL- HTTP://SUPPORT.DELL.COM

/US/EN/INDEX.ASP
MODEM TYPE: HSF
WINXP INBUILD SUPPORT: YES

So I downloaded the drivers from http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv/ (I downloaded the .tar.gz as I am running Gentoo Linux. After unpacking and running
make install
and finally, hsfconfig, answering the questions asked (I used the results from listmdm). However, after installing it gives me the following message: "Your HSF modem should now be accessible as /dev/ttySHSF0" I checked /dev/ and did not find ttySHSF0. So what should I do from here? I'm using devfs if that helps. Thanks for your help...

[jaygee432]

ViMan, my guess is that since you installed from a tarball like I did, you still need to load some special module(s) that were created, e.g., hsfserial.o, in something like a ~lib/modules/misc folder. The way I did this in slackware was to make a line for each in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules like so: /sbin/modprobe hsfserial, /sbin/modprobe hsfyukon, etc. I think there were about six. I probably did not need to load them all, but I did not want to bother to figure out just which were needed.

[ViMan]

Thanks for your help. However, my main problem is dealing with /dev/ttySHSF0, which doesn't exist when I look for it. When I type: lsmod, I get the following:

Module Size Used by Tainted: PF
hsfserial 21792 1 (initializing)
hsfengine 868940 0 (autoclean) [hsfserial]
hsfosspec 21436 0 (autoclean) [hsfserial hsfengine]

Is there anything else that should be loaded? Also, what can I do about /dev/ttySHSF0? Thanks for your time...

[jaygee432]

Originally posted by ViMan
Thanks for your help. However, my main problem is dealing with /dev/ttySHSF0, which doesn't exist when I look for it. When I type: lsmod, I get the following:

Module Size Used by Tainted: PF
hsfserial 21792 1 (initializing)
hsfengine 868940 0 (autoclean) [hsfserial]
hsfosspec 21436 0 (autoclean) [hsfserial hsfengine]

Is there anything else that should be loaded? Also, what can I do about /dev/ttySHSF0? Thanks for your time...
Not sure, see if you can find the folder where those modules live and what else is there. The tarball I installed was older, and the process created /dev/ttyHSF0. /dev/modem was automatically linked to that. Find /dev/modem and see if it is linked to anything.

[bjornredemption]

Originally posted by ViMan
Thanks for your help. However, my main problem is dealing with /dev/ttySHSF0, which doesn't exist when I look for it. When I type: lsmod, I get the following:

Module Size Used by Tainted: PF
hsfserial 21792 1 (initializing)
hsfengine 868940 0 (autoclean) [hsfserial]
hsfosspec 21436 0 (autoclean) [hsfserial hsfengine]

Is there anything else that should be loaded? Also, what can I do about /dev/ttySHSF0? Thanks for your time...

Gentoo uses devfs which is the problem for some reason.
Theres more about it in the documentation which comes with the tarball.

[ViMan]

Thanks. But I was able to get it working by switching to vanilla kernel sources (2.4.18 and 2.4.20). I was using a patched Gentoo kernel (with this such as preemption and other enhancements). Returning to the vanilla sources solved the problem. Thanks for your help.

[Billjr]

HuiLai,
I'm having problems getting my win-modem installed. I see you got yours to work. I don't have a conextant I have a pctel based
Zoltrix which has Linux drivers which I dwonloaded, and am trying
to install. How do you do this install. I'm totally new to Linux and only hadRH8.0 for a week now so I need to take baby steps. Please walk me through the install procedure in Gnome and explain in plain english. No "do a cat and..." "Do a modprobe..."
well known phrases are not well known to newbies like me.
I'd like to see the steps written out please, in normal words.
Thanks for your help.

[HuiLai]

Billjr,

ok.. lets start with one thing really quick.. Your major player, as far as linux goes, is the command line. I won't bother writing pointless stuff to get you to like the command line, all i'm saying is that is what most (if not all) people use.

As far as installing rpm's.. I don't know what GNOME uses as a rpm manager so i will tell you the command line version. no... don't freak out its SUPER easy.

i'm assuming your in windows while reading this.. I also asume that as a newbie gnome automatically loads whenever your boot into linux.. if not wonderful.. EITHER WAY write this down.. or whatever.

First. cat the man file for rpms
Just kidding.. though you should at some point..

#1. Boot up into GNOME.
#2. Find where your RPM for you modem is.
#3. Run a Terminal program (aka command line emulator) it should be on your toolbar on the bottom there. It looks like a box with ">" i think. If you can't find it you can press ctr+alt+f1 or ctr+alt+f2 or ctr+alt+f3 or ctr+alt+f4 all the way through f6. This will bring up a REAL command line. Login as 'root' then follow the steps i have provided below. Basically get a command line window.
#5. Once you get that, if your not logged in as root do so now. How do you do that? Well if your logged in as a regular user, such as billjr you can just type "su" meaning SUPERUSER! then type in your root password.
#6. change to the directory of the RPM you downloaded like this:

Bash/>: cd /directoryWhereRPMis

if it is in your home directory you can go there like this:

Bash/>: cd ~/
Bash/home/billjr>:

#7. Install RPM.. ready? are ya??? ok.. type
rpm -ivh nameofmodempackage.rpm (ENTER)
after you type the "rpm -ivh type maybe the first 3 or 4 letters of the RPM file name and press TAB. This will automatically complete the rest of it for you. Unless you have multiple files that are named similar to each other.

#8. It will tell you if you've done everything ok, if not, it will throw out some errors. Jot them down and bring em back to me i'll tell ya what ya need.. you can e-mail me too! rymos@yahoo.com
#9. if you install it ok with no error messages GREAT!! exit the GNOME and reboot. (Easiest for a newbie to do)

RECAP
SO:
get to a prompt

BashPrompt/home/billjr>:su
password: enter root password and press ENTER
BashPromt/home/billjr>:cd /toRPMDirectory/
BashPrompt/RPMDirectory>:rpm -ivh mod(TAB) emfilename.rpm should automatically complete..
Then you will get some messages.
Good messages -- AWESOME
Bad messages -- D'oh, post em here or e-mail me
If you pressed ctrl+alt+anyofthe"F"buttons
you can press ctrl+alt+f7 or f8 to get back to the GNOME gui and you can reboot from there.

HTH ,
Hui

[Billjr]

Thanks but I don't think I have an rpm. I think it is a module.
I downloaded it to a floppy. then as per instructions I did below:
mknod /dev/ttyS15 c 62 79
chgrp uucp /dev/ttyS15
chmod 666 /dev/ttyS15
ln _s /dev/ttyS15 /dev/modem

Then an icon is now in my Home folder that looks like a chip from my motherbrd. It says ttyS15 0 bytes. what do I do now. I guess
the module goes in there if I'm figuring right. I just don't know how.