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Re: Winmodem (conexant/Rockwell) HSF under kernel 2.4?
- To: "Diego G. Iastrubni" <iastrubn(at-nospam)actcom.co.il>
- Subject: Re: Winmodem (conexant/Rockwell) HSF under kernel 2.4?
- From: Yedidya Bar-david <didi(at-nospam)tau.ac.il>
- Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 16:01:09 +0300
- Cc: Hetz Ben Hamo <hetz(at-nospam)kde.org>, ILUG <linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il>
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Hi
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 02:50:01PM +0300, Diego G. Iastrubni wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 July 2001 20:36, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Well, I needed to buy a modem (PCI only since thats what my boards have
> > here) so I found Conexant HSF modem (which is a winmodem) and bought it.
> >
> > Now - I found the drivers for kernel 2.2.x but not 2.4.x - the only page I
> > found talking about kernel 2.4.x and Conexant/Rockwel HSF modem - seems to
> > be a dead web site...
> >
> > Anyone by any chance got those drivers maybe?
> >
> > Thanks,
> A french company wrote the drivers you found. Olictech. They did it for the
> 2.2.6 kernels I think. Anyother is not supported, they are only for HSF,
> while other conexant modems have HCP (or something like mine) are not
> supported. It could be good if we had a page in which there was a list of
> linmodems available here, and where I could get it. (I suggested it once but
> I was answered with: why do tou want to make "pirsomot")
Just in case anyone is interested:
A few weeks ago I decided to buy a winmodem for linux. The reason was
I had a slow 28.8 hardware modem, and didn't want to spend ~ 100$ for
a 56K new hardware modem.
I looked around various sites, notably linmodems.technion that someone
recommended, and various websites of Israeli stores, and found that
the most supported among those that are available in Israeli stores
and are cheap is the PCTel chipset (15$-20$ for a modem).
The website of the driver for linux says they have drivers both for 2.2
and 2.4. (And the fastest way to find it is 'pctel linux' in google).
The driver is partly GPL and partly binary only (well-separated, I
think it doesn't violate the GPL or Linus's opinion).
I bought one, downloaded, compiled and insmoded the driver (on 2.4.5),
and it worked quite well.
I got with ftp 5.8KB/s, and the load on the CPU was ~ 15% (a 300Mhz
Celeron overclocked to 450Mhz). The load on the CPU, BTW, was almost
constant when I was connected, with no relation to the actual data load
on the network.
Sadly, in 2.4.7 there was quite a big change to some of the serial code
and headers, and the modules do not compile. A new driver is not out yet
(I am not on any relevant mailing list, so I do not know the status).
I looked a bit at the 2.4.7 patch, and the changes seem too big for a
quick hack (I am not an experienced kernel programmer). So now I work
with 2.4.6 and wait.
Note that I do not make a "pirsomet". There are several PCTel based
modems in several stores, and I only gave my experience.
I think people on this mailing list will happily read such reports
from owners of winmodems under linux, especially if they are readily
available in Israel. I also think this subject is very on-topic.
>
> - diego
>
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