Modem driver for Fedora 20

Tom Douglas · 12-28-2013, 12:58 PM

Hi. I don't know if I'm in the right place.....

I have a Hiro PCI modem that I'm trying to communicate with without success. The modem does work in WinXP, so that eliminates the hardware.

Running Fedora 20, I typed this and....

Code:

dmesg | grep ttyS
[    0.986470] 00:07: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4, base_baud = 115200) is a 16550A

...so I see the modem at /dev/ttyS0.

I installed [yum install] cutecom and got a "Could not open /dev/ttyS0.

Downloaded scanModem from http://www.linmodems.org/, read ModemData.txt. scanModem says I updated in 2011 but I just downloaded it. So that one throws me. It does show....

Code:

CLASS=0780
NAME="Communication controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. Device 2f83 "
PCIDEV=14f1:2f83
SUBSYS=14f1:0000
IRQ=11
HDA2=00:1b.0
CodecDiagnosed=
slamrTest=
CodecClass=
IDENT=hsfmodem
SLMODEMD_DEVICE=
OPTS=
Driver=hsfmodem-drivers
DRIVER=hsfmodem_drivers

What should I be looking at to communicate with the PCI modem?

Thanks!

michaelk · 12-29-2013, 06:39 AM

ttyS0 is a real serial port and not the modem. Looks like you used a O and not a 0.

Here are the drivers for a hsf MODEM. You need to download the generic RPM package with source. The free version is limited to 14.4. I do not know if the driver still installs successfully with the latest kernels etc.

http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hsf/full/downloads.php