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[jcoder24]

[psr1]

Greetings:
I have a Conexant HCF 56k Data/Fax/Voice Modem (Worldwide) (rev modem and the HCF drivers work great...using V.92 drivers. An excellent addition. Thank you vey much.

PSR1 - a Happy Camper.

[syzygy]

hi jcoder24,

my sis's xp machine had a combo of spyware, trojans & sassa, tried eradicating them but they keep lurking, talked her into me nuking her hard drive & trying linux.

with puppy & your hsf dotpups, & puppy, could get her conexant modem working but, as mentioned previously, have to re-install on reboot.

tried doing :-
"rm /dev/modem
ln -s /dev/ttyHSFS0 /dev/modem"

in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, but no joy, then tried similar with ../cnxtcfg, but again no luck. will try something else t'morro. anyone else any success?

thanx

[jcoder24]

Try adding cnxtcfg or /usr/local/bin/cnxtcfg instead of ../cnxtcfg to rc.local.

The thing about creating the links manually is that there is a number of other steps which has to be done first. This means that you would have to reproduce a substantial section of the cnxtcfg script. However, I've included them below just in case you still have problems with the first suggestion. NB these commands haven't been tested from rc.local.

<------------BEGIN------------>


HSF="1" # set to "0" if you have a hcf modem
modem="hsf" # set to "hcf" if you have a hcf modem
mdev="HSF" # set to "HCF" if you have a hcf modem

# Due to segmentation errors when inserting hcfpciserial we
# have to temporarily move the current.cty file until after
# the modules are inserted

if [ -f /etc/$modem/current.cty ]; then
mv /etc/$modem/current.cty /etc/$modem/current.cty.o
fi

#-----------------------------------------------------------
# Load modules for detected modem
#-----------------------------------------------------------

echo >> /etc/modules.conf
echo alias /dev/ttyS"$mdev"* "$modem"serial >> /etc/modules.conf
echo alias char-major-241 "$modem"serial >> /etc/modules.conf
echo alias /dev/ttyCUA* "$modem"serial >> /etc/modules.conf
echo alias char-major-242 "$modem"serial >> /etc/modules.conf
echo alias /dev/modem "$modem"serial >> /etc/modules.conf
#echo options "$modem"serial serialmajor=240 calloutmajor=241 >> /etc/modules.conf


if [ `lsmod | grep -ic $modem` -eq 0 ] #check if modules loaded already
then
insmod "$modem"osspec
if [ "$HSF" -gt 0 ] ; then insmod hsfbasic2 ; fi
insmod "$modem"engine
insmod "$modem"serial
fi


if [ -f /etc/$modem/current.cty.o ]; then
mv /etc/$modem/current.cty.o /etc/$modem/current.cty
fi

#-----------------------------------------------------------
# Setup required devices
#-----------------------------------------------------------

rm -f /dev/modem /dev/cua"$mdev"0 /dev/ttyS"$mdev"0 2>/dev/null
"$modem"config -serial

dialog --no-shadow --msgbox "$mdev modem successfully installed." 6 37

<------------END------------>

[jcoder24]

BTW after you are sure that it is working you can comment out the 'dialog' commands from the cnxtcfg script or the rc.local as entered in the previous post. In the next version of the packages I will add an option to install to rc.local.

[syzygy]

jcoder24,

finally got around to adding your suggested script to rc.local, but no success.upon reboot, again had to reinstall hsf modem. i'll take another look at install script & try a workaround.

cheers

[jcoder24]

*** Edited ***

I've tested the following successfully

edit /etc/rc.d/rc.local and add one of the following lines depending on your modem.


hsfconfig --serial #for HSF modems
or
hcfpciconfig --serial # for HCF modems

This adds approx 18 seconds to the boot time for puppy on my AMD Athlon 650 MHz.

I'll add a facilitiy to add this option to the rc.local file in the next version of dotpups and pupgets.

[syzygy]

well done jcoder24,

tested the rc.local script today & it works a treat.

thankyou.

[Flash]

jcoder, perphaps you could review and edit the subject line of this thread. Don't you think 'RC1' needs to be updated?

[jcoder24]

Agreed. I've update the subject line.

[jcoder24]

I've updated the original packages and added a dotpup to configure modem on startup for those who downloaded the previous version of the dotpups. The pupget package will be updated soon.

NB I have done limited testing of these since the changes are minor. Hopefully there shouldn't be any problems.

Changelog

Installation instructions displayed when installing dotpup and stored in /root/CNXT_INSTALL.txt for reference.

Option to setup modem on boot added to the modem setup/configuration script.

LICENSE file include in /usr/lib/hsf or /usr/lib/hcfpci depending on your modem.

minor configuration script corrections

[Guest]

THIS IS SPAM, ADMIN PLEASE REMOVE

[gamfa]

I had a bit of a problem with the hcf/hsf drivers. When you cat for the terms hSF and HCF in cnxtcfg, it does not pick up my conexant modem. "cat /proc/pci" gives the following on my modem...

Bus 2, device 5, function 0:
Communication controller: PCI device 14f1:1085 (Conexant) (rev 137).
IRQ 11.
Master Capable. Latency=32.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfeaf0000 [0xfeafffff].
I/O at 0xc400 [0xc407].

As you can see, no "hcf" in the output. Once I discovered this, I changed the grep" from "HCF" to "conexant" and things went fine from there.

Other people might have the same problem with this.

[mouldy]

Um, tried your last hcf driver. Pup file installed, I rebooted. Get quick glimpse of desktop and am thrown back to command line. Neither xwin nor startx will start xwindows again. However if I reboot, I again get quick glimpse of desktop.

Cant run dotpup uninstall from command line. What do I delete to stop driver from installing or whatever its doing to crash xwindows?

[jcoder24]

Gamfa

Thanks, I'll try to see how best I can accomodate this into the drivers packages.

mouldy

Comment out the lines referred to in this post and see what happens. You can also try testing the drivers with a new pup001 file.

http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?p=37949#37949