conexant hcf modem

couch · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 2

I am having problems with my conexant hcf modem.
I download the drivers from http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv/hcf/
, installed and ran hcfpciconfig. Everthing went fine except it didnt create /dev/SHCF0.
When I did modprobe hcfpciserial, a whole lot of text whizzed past and ended with Segmentation Fault.

lsmod shows:

Module Size Used by Tainted: P
hcfpciserial 22176 1 (initializing)
hcfpciengine 886288 0 [hcfpciserial]
hcfpciosspec 15196 2 [hcfpciserial hcfpciengine]
nls_iso8859-1 2880 3 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 4384 3 (autoclean)

Does anyone know why it wont load properly?
I've had my modem working under mandrake and slackware before.

I've searched everywhere and spent the last two days trying to get it to work, but I've had now luck so far.

Also I did a stage 3 gentoo install, so I'm using the default kernel (2.4.19-gentoo-r5).

tod · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2003 5:25 pm Post subject:

The answer is probably related to devfs. It appears you modules are loading so devfsd is creating the device somewhere under /dev although it isn't making the backwards compatibility symlink to /dev/SHCFO.

Look around in /dev/tts/* and see if a new serial device is created when you load the connexant modules.

hth

AlterEgo · Veteran Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 1619

1) not all hcflinmodems work !!!!!!
2) I had the same issue (and it's been a bitch):
You need the kernel modules bsd_comp and ppp_deflate.
Run hcfpciconfig and make sure the following text is in /etc/aliases:
### modules-update: end processing /etc/modules.d/ppp
alias /dev/ttySHCF[0-9]* hcfpciserial
alias char-major-240 hcfpciserial
alias /dev/cuaHCF[0-9]* hcfpciserial
alias char-major-241 hcfpciserial
alias /dev/modem hcfpciserial
options hcfpciserial serialmajor=240 calloutmajor=241 pcivendorid=0x127A pcideviceid=0x1034

(the last line might contain modem-specific items)

Via env-update this will end up in /etc/modules.conf.
If this does not work correctly, the modules will hang: "initializing" after a reboot.

couch · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 2

I enabled bsd_comp and ppp_deflate, and did what you said but its still not working. It didnt load on reboot so I did modprobe it ended in Segmentation Fault and didnt initialize again. Is there a reason why it keeps doing this?
Can you give me a step by step guide please?