I would like to share my experience on setting up my HCF based modem under Linux Mandrake 8.0... As Conexant Howto file states, it seemed that there is no drivers available for this kinda modem, but after doing some test with HSF drivers with my modem, I finally succeeded in making my HCF modem work and in fact I am using it now, and posting this messages for all users owning of one of this modem.

May anyone interest in what I did in order to make this modem work, just email me at: froycard@hotmail.com or post a reply to this post, I will check later !

Later people

:smash:

you may want to share this with the people over at www.linmodems.org to help others out.. or something like that..

I would very much like to know how you did it as I have an HCF modem and Mandrake 8.1. Hopefully the instructions will work in 8.1 as well. Thanks.

Well, here I outline some experiences I had working with a HCF modem and using HSF Linux drivers, especifically, the drivers you can find by reading the Conexant HOWTO document. Do take into account that the kernel ver (uname -a) is 2.4.3 (Mandrake 8.0)

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As I mentioned in a "lost" post, I could finally make
my HCF winmodem work under linux Mandrake 8.0 (clean

installation). My modem is a CNet model: CN5614RV, so
it uses a CONEXANT chip. I noticed (after buying this
crappy modem) that there was no Linux driver available
for this modem, and that Conexant will release one by
the end of 2001 (2001 is over, so???).

Anyway, I downloaded the drivers available for HSF
modem, and start to experiment with it under Mandrake
8.0 and later under RED HAT 7.0. Firstly, I installed
the drivers according to the steps outlined in the
README file and/or CONEXANT Howto. The results are as
follow:

1. Mandrake 8.0: After installation and using the line
command: "service HSF start", I could test it by using
Minicom and then, I could test it under KDE. In KDE, I
could check that it could recognize my modem at
/dev/hsf0. But, when I tried to connect to Internet,
and after the handshaking and even after
username/password authentication, all my computer
froze on me. Geezzzzzzzzzz...

2. RED HAT 7.0: I used the same procedures as before,
and test it under KDE. Kde could check and query the
modem successful. But when I tried to connect to
Internet, it didn't detect any dial tone, thus it
didn't dial my ISP phone number.

3. I went back to Mandrake 8.0. But I re-read the
INSTALL file for further installations tips. and I
noticed that it stated clearly:
"By default, the Makefile tries to
automatically determine PCI Vendor/Device IDs for your
modem. You can
specify them manually if this fails. Wrong values will
prevent the
driver from working properly and can possibly crash
your system."...

So I edited the makefile file and commented out some
line, so that the makefile didn't determine the IDs
for my modem. I asume everybody know how to determine
by yourself those numbers.

Well, that's it, after installation I fired up my
Windows manager (KDE) and tested again for my modem,
and it was found correctly,and now it didn't crash my
computer as before.

It works for me, maybe it may work for some of you as
long as your modem ID numbers is listed in the
makefile.

Take this into account, I am not a guru, just love to
experiment with stuffs and I have spent long hours on
the computer in order to figure the whole thing out,
maybe this is the point that most mortals don't like
to use Linux, since it is very hard to find support
for everything...

I will check for it later for any comments on this
subject, hoping this time my post show up somewhere...
lol

Later folks

Froy Cárdenas (froycard@yahoo.com)

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i have the HSF and debian linux.... the RPM files for RH and mandrake do not work with debian as it need .deb files for the most part... i tried downloading the files and unzipping them and the unzipped files do not have file extensions meaning that they are RPM or someother non-compatable filetype....
i need hsflinmodem.deb to get mine to work so if anyone has this or is able to get their HSF working with debian... plz let me know as i cannot do anything (updating, etc...) without the modem
i am not on a network so thats not a possibility

jollygiantsd at yahoo.com

hi
i have a rockwell hcf modem and i want to install the driver for it
i have gentoo linux distro and my kernel is 2.4.19-r5.when i run hcfconfig it says that i have smp kernel and the drivers dont work with smp kernels.i want to ask where i can download a non smp kernel and if there is a problem to install other kernel on gentoo.pls answer me as soon as possible

You just need to recompile your own kernel unless you are running gentoo on Symetric Multiprocessing system (2 CPU's and up)

thanx my friend

i think dear you have not chacked this page
http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv/hsf/downloads.html
all drivers for conexant hcf modems are available for the latest versions of suse ,mandrake and redhat.
and know there is a generic driver there which can work on any distribution and any kernel.actaully generic driver builds the driver for you using source of your kernel.
but the official conexant site has nothing for linux lovers except a hsf rpm.
so dont need to try that hsf driver on hcf. try the coorect.

Screwball,
Look into a program called alien. I've had sucess converting rpm packages to debs.

Hope that helps you

i install the driver successfully and it connects to the net.but after rebooting the device dissappears.how can i fix this?

pls also tell me the name of the driver and what files to edit

I'm running Slackware 8.1 with the HCF modem (well I pesume it's the HCF one, the HCF driver worked when I used SuSE 8.0. But now when I try to install from the rpm (the generic one) I get failed dependencies (pciutils (or similar) and /bin/sh I've checked and sh is there and working fine, so I don't understand that, but what is this pciutils?

I have troubles installing the package with Debian 3.0.

I downloaded the source archive ( hcf + riptide ).
It's installed but when i try to compile it says:
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Trying to automatically re-compile the modules..
(this requires a C compiler and proper kernel sources to be installed)

Where is the linux source build directory that matches your running kernel?
[/usr/src/linux]

WARNING: missing file /usr/src/linux/include/linux/autoconf.h
The cause of this problem is usually a missing or misconfigured
kernel source tree (and sometimes an incorrect directory or symbolic link).
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So what is the linux source build directory that matches your running kernel?
[/usr/src/linux]

Thanx in advance

I cant believe they got those crappy modems working for linux.