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jcoder24 · Joined: 06 May 2005 Posts: 601 Location: Barbados

Updated 20070624
License restrictions on these drivers prevents me from providing packages for them so I've compiled some instructions for those of you who don't mind 14.4kbs (with the free version) or paying $19.99 for a license.

0) Make sure your modem is installed and you know if it is a hcf/hsf. If you are unsure download the scanmodem.gz file, gunzip it and run the script to see which modem you have.

1) Make sure you have the devx file loaded. The devx file adds developer tools to puppy that allows you to compile. To "install" download devx_202.sfs or devx_210.sfs or devx_211.sfs or devx_212.sfs (depending on your version of puppy) to the same area where your pup_save file is located and reboot.

2a) For Puppy 2.11 and lower
Download these files missing from the devx file linux-2.6.16.7-scripts.tar.bz2 (0.4M/1.9M - download/extracted) needed from the kernel source for compilation to succeed. Extract them via tar xvfj linux-2.6.16.7-scripts.tar.bz2 -C /usr/src

2b) For Puppy 2.12 and higher
Download these files missing from the devx file linux-2.6.18.1-scripts.tar.bz2 (0.4M/1.9M - download/extracted) needed from the kernel source for compilation to succeed. Extract them via tar xvfj linux-2.6.18.1-scripts.tar.bz2 -C /usr/src

3a) Download the source drivers for your modem (the binary packages avilable are kernel specific and I haven't seen any with the same kernel version as puppy).

If you agree to the hcf license you can download the hcf driver here

If you agree to the hsf license you can download the hsf driver here

[Added 20070624]
3b) For the more recent versions of the drivers some additional libraries are needed. These libraries were identified by craftybytes and packaged as missing_files.rar by telemetric_au.

4) Extract the downloaded source file, change working directory to the source directory and run make install. ie
for hcf

mouldy · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 479

Er...um...only thing I am going to say is anybody wanting to do this might want to go to this link to fedora forum and read the last post especially. http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1510

I havent tried it and have no idea if it works. I just stumbled across it. You are on your own.

Kannada-Puppy · Joined: 27 Jul 2006 Posts: 8 Location: India

Another thing ; after installation of modem driver do not run modem wizard- it is not necessary. Instead run GK dial or other dialup program to configure dialup settings. I was able to connect to internet without problems.
Rao

cai · Joined: 24 Nov 2006 Posts: 2

cai · Joined: 24 Nov 2006 Posts: 2

I tried adding the src folder under usr so I could do the extraction of kernel source scripts. But I still got problem in installing " hsfmodem".
I can't make run the "make install" command. Is there anything I need to install / intialize to nake it run?

Or maybe you can give me links for solutions or way in installing D-Link 562IS modem in puppy linux. Thanks!

jcoder24 · Joined: 06 May 2005 Posts: 601 Location: Barbados

jcoder24 · Joined: 06 May 2005 Posts: 601 Location: Barbados

Added missing scripts for the puppy 2.12 kernel version and re-uploaded the scripts for the other puppy 2 versions.

Ian · Posted: Sat 03 Feb 2007, 03:07 Post_subject:

With the hsfconfig I got as far as:
'Please enter region name for modem unit 0 [USA]: '
and when I try to enter a country it comes up with:

'ERROR: Region XXX is not supported.
Available countries:
/usr/sbin/hsfconfig: line 56: fold: command not found
/usr/sbin/hsfconfig: line 56: fold: command not found
Please enter region name for modem unit 0 [USA]:'

Of course the XXX is the country I am trying to input and it does not respond to any entry at all.

A look in /usr/sbin/hsfconfig shows the two files that the script reads in /var/run are empty.

I ran it again and then it came up with :

'/usr/sbin/hsfconfig line 1615: sysctl: command not found'

then back to not being able to determine region, defaulting to "USA" & not doing so.

Back to 'Please enter region...etc'

I am going to take a break from this for the moment as it is quite frustating and I can feel the BP going up.

This is in Puppy 2.13.

Gn2 · Posted: Sat 03 Feb 2007, 05:23 Post_subject:

Use of -C option is what caused directory failure until it was created -
It is NOT mandatory - nor good practice to untar into standard location of /usr/src (for kernel sources)

Better to create a dedicated folder (if hard drive install)
to user's folder path.
All that is required - is the clean headers

Do you have command (sysctl) in Puppy
Already checked the reference makefile lines

Locale is set in profile

craftybytes · Joined: 17 Nov 2006 Posts: 298 Location: QLD AUSTRALIA

jcoder24,
I found that I needed the following extra files to make MY hsf modem compile to work properly:

sysctl
libproc-3.2.5.so
ls
libacl.so.1
libattr.so.1

+ any symlink files associated with any of the above ALSO..

I made sure I had the 'kernel-source-2.6.18.1' files, 'kernel-header' files and your extra 'scripts' files installed to - '/usr/src' - PLUS these above extra files installed to their respective 'folders' ..

I used the latest "Linuxant" hsf driver files (for the Conexant modem) to do my compile with - the compile ONLY properly worked ONCE I had included the extra files as above - so you might want to add these to the 'download' files for completeness..

NOTE: you may need to include a script to have the 'existing' Puppy - "ls" command file renamed BEFORE the new - 'ls' command file is installed - reason is that 'existing' is the - 'Busybox-ls' - command, whereas the new is standard linux - 'ls' - command, which allows more 'options' than the busybox one - could cause system clash if both installed ..

HTH..

Ian · Posted: Mon 05 Feb 2007, 19:59 Post_subject:

Alas! after downloading MEPIS & extracting the files I am back to

'ERROR: Region "AUSTRALIA" is not supported

(I can believe that) Smile

/usr/sbin/hsconfig: line 56: fold: command not found'

I followed the procedure as outlined above.

Renamed ls and installed the one from MEPIS.
Installed the libs and created links as required.
Installed sysctl in sbin.
Downloaded the latest hsf driver.

I tried using the default /usr/src directory and also the files that jcoder24 posted plus combining them in one.

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6663 Location: lisbon

very strange...i definitely got jcoder's files working on pup2.13. at first i had to accept the default of USA, but then ran hsfconfig -c and it accepted AUSTRALIA.

( i ended up wiping it as it absolutely crawled. there was mention of using a hex editor to circumvent the speed restrictions of the free driver, but it made no diff)

nhnam · Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Posts: 4

please give me, the missing lib but working,
thank a lot

Ian · Posted: Tue 06 Feb 2007, 22:05 Post_subject:

I have tried everything and now it is coming up with a 'clock skew' problem.

I am going to try it on a couple of other machines and if I can't get it to work I am giving it up as a bad joke.

craftybytes · Joined: 17 Nov 2006 Posts: 298 Location: QLD AUSTRALIA

Ian..

The - 'fold' - command in the hsfconfig script is part of the - 'GNU Coreutils' - package - which really should be installed to your system - if not many of the 'base' linux commands will not work correctly ..

EDIT::: Just realised that - 'Busybox' - is installed to Puppy in liu of - 'Coreutils' - package - so maybe some commands such as 'fold' will need to be sourced from another linux distro to make everything work as expected - though in MY hsfmodem compile efforts - the prob with the 'fold' in the hsfconfig script did not happen - so could be also related to the 'REGION' prob as well ..

As to the 'REGION' setting prob - this is most probably linked to either an incorrect 'locale' setting or to an incorrect - 'timezone' - setting ..

Just to be sure - try checking if you have the relevant 'zoneinfo' files for AUSTRALIA - found in folder - '/usr/share/zoneinfo' - in Puppy ... If none exist this may be your problem..

FYI: you may want to check out the links in the forum :-

Hardware - Networking - Dialup

for some usefull info related to MY particular hsf modem install..

HTH..
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