Hi everyone, I'm trying to get my Conexant HSF 56k Data/Fax modem to work on my Compaq Presario 1700T under Red Hat Linux 7.3. If you have a moment to spare, any help would be greatly appreciated.

My bash system couldn't find "lspci," so I used cat /proc/pci, and found the following:

Bus 2, device 4, function 0:
Communication controller: Conexant HSF 56k Data/Fax Modem (rev 1).
IRQ 5.
Master Capable. Latency=64.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd0200000 [0xd020ffff].
I/O at 0x3000 [0x3007].

so I downloaded the HSF lin modem driver from http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv/hsf/do...s-rh-i686.html (specific file called hsflinmodem-5.03.03.L3mbsibeta02072100k2.4.18_4-1rh.i686.rpm) and the RIPTIDE driver from http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv/riptid...s-rh-i686.html (specific file called riptide-0.3mbsibeta02061200k2.4.18_3-1rh.i686.rpm), and installed both of them with

"rpm -i [file-name].rpm"

the result said that my modem should be accessible as /dev/ttySHSF0 or through the symbolic link /dev/modem.

However, I couldn't get my modem to work...I tried

echo "atdt5555309" > /dev/ttySHSF0

but couldn't hear anything except for a possible (probable!) faint "click." (I cranked ALL my volume meters to max with Audio Mixer under Gnome.) No dialing sounds. Dip didn't work since my system didn't have dip. I'm running Red Hat 7.3 by the way. Also, running Internet Configuration Wizard resulted in no modems found. Manually specifying modem location and trying to activate this "General modem" resulted in hanging the process.

Any insights??

Thanks.

first "rm /dev/modem"
then
use "ln -s /dev/ttySHCF0 /dev/modem"

fool_inteligent nailed it.

I just have one Rockwell HCF modem working but from the tarball, the rpm source is working too. You can start the GUI tool to set the modem on /dev/ttySHCF0.

Umm...my modem is at /dev/ttySHSF0, not /dev/ttySHCF0.

Oopss...sorry..typo error.

hehe, i had to make sure it was a typo error, not some obscure linux thingy i didn't know about. :-)