Conexant Modem - No dial tone...
 

I installed the HSF beta version modem driver. My problem is I'm not able to get the DIAL TONE. When I uncheck the wait for dial tone in KPP, I can hear the tone dialing sound. But no dial tone. It says "EXPECTING: CONNNECT" and the KPP dialog says "Dialing xxx....". I can query modem. I don't know what's wrong with this. Please help...

How can I get the dial tone?

Modem: Conexant PCI 127A 1025.
OS: SuSE Linux 8.0 Pro

have you made the symbolic link from ttySHSF0 to /dev/modem ?

is it working under another o/s? because I had the same problem with another modem like that and it came our problematic

also check first if the phone cables are correct plugged to the phone device and the line.

Yes, tried to do that command

ln –s tyySHSF0 /dev/modem

and it returned error: /dev/modem already exists. What should I do?

This modem is working in Windows XP and when I boot to linux without changing any cables, it doesn't like to work.

It's hard for me to qualify the problem so I'll become tiresome and take it from the beggining.

First of all you've already visited I think http://www.linuxant.com ?

http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hsf/...s-suse-x86.php ----> you have to download the driver for the kernel you are using. You can see what kernel you are running by typing the command at a terminal uname -r

Remove the driver but please check step by step the installation page
http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hcf/install.php

Yes, I did the step by step insalltion and made sure that I installed the correct kernel version driver. I read in README.txt file that PCI 127A 1025 could be HCF or HSF modem. I tried with both the drivers. HCF is not able to detect my device. HSF installs succesfully but no dial tone and it give me NO CARIER after some time.

By the way I tried installing different versions of SuSE 8, 9.1 & even 10. All of them complained. Just wondering why not my modem?

In SuSE version 9.1 and 10, it gives me a very long beep sound (continous) and says, "Dialing....". After some time it gives a message "NO CARIER".

Hi,

To make the link to your modem device you should do this:

# rm /dev/modem - to delete already existing link for /dev/modem device
# ln –s /dev/tyySHSF0 /dev/modem - to make the new soft link for the /dev/modem device

To solve the problem with the carrier detection I use ATX3DT for No dial tone detection in the kppp modem settings. I use wvdial tool also and I added X3 at the and of the initialization string in the /etc/wvdial.conf file.

I hope this helps. Good luck.

Yes igorc, that was what it was missing I didn't came at my mind at all!
SuSE8x do that with the ATX3DT command and I'm pretty sure that it will work.
When I had a winmodem I remember solving that by taking the commands from win o/s

I tried ATX3DT commnand and the dialer says "Initializing modem...." and there is no dial tone, no response from the modem. I waited for few minutes and still it says "Initializing modem...".

I even tried wvdial. Still the same response. If I use ATX3 or any another AT commands it says OK and "Dialing..." and later on it complains - "no carier".

I tried installing in SuSE 8.0, SuSE 9.1 and SuSE 10.0.

SuSE 8.0 - The beta version works a bit. Atleast I can hear the tone dialing sound (But no dial tone).

SuSE 9.1 - The 14.4kbps version works like I can hear a long beep (loud) sound and says "Dialing.." But no dial tone or tone diaing sound.

SuSE 10 - The 14.4kbps version installs successfully. But again no beep, no dial tone or tone dialing sound. Just dead.

I wrote to linuxant support, but they say my diagdump output looks ok. It should work. I don't know what I'm doing wrong... :rolleyes:

Ok that's troublesome but I gotta tell you something about this, even if you work it under linux it would get you tired to view a page, believe me I was surfing the net with a winmodem and I gotta tell you that today's web pages are not for 14kbps.

I know that doesn't sound like a solution but if you can afford it you can purchase an external serial modem which would 99.9% will work under linux, you can of course take an external usb but check it on the net before you buy it for compatibility.