Hello,
I have searched various threads for info on procedure to get a conexant winmodem working in Mandriva 2005LE and not having much luck.
I tend to make thinks harder than they are but here goes. I found a hsfmodem kernel in the distro but no kernel source for it so I put in the 2.6.11-6mdk kernel which had the source on the cd also. I then went to linuxant and dl'd the driver rpm and installed it. OK so far.
Now I'm guessing here that the install was suppose to install a module to get this thing working, however no module (lsmod) is listed pertaining to a modem or hsf. Modprobe comes back saying module not found. I did a #whereis hsfmodem and found 2 references, one to /etc/hsfmodem and the other to /usr/sbin/modules/binaries/linux-2.6.11-6mdk/. Now at this point I'm beginning to feel like I'm going in circles. The shortest path between two points is a straight line...can somebody put me on that line.I've run hsfconfig and am prompted for region and have no idea as to what to enter here.

The "connexant" modem is known in linux as "linuxant" - have you run the scanModem script from the linmodem project?

You need to run 'hsfconfig' as root from the console to configure this driver. Do 'hsfconfig --help' for the available options.