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Re: Winmodem (conexant/Rockwell) HSF under kernel 2.4?
- To: Yedidya Bar-david <didi(at-nospam)tau.ac.il>
- Subject: Re: Winmodem (conexant/Rockwell) HSF under kernel 2.4?
- From: Erez Doron <erez(at-nospam)savan.com>
- Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2001 09:43:27 +0200
- CC: "Diego G. Iastrubni" <iastrubn(at-nospam)actcom.co.il>, Hetz Ben Hamo <hetz(at-nospam)kde.org>, ILUG <linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il>
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FYI
I tried to update my fileserver (hardware raid - mylex ) to 2.4.7 and found
the mylex driver that comes in the kernel distribution to be broken.
So I would not expect much from a patch that comes externally ...
regards
erez.
Yedidya Bar-david wrote:
> 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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> didi
>
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