Update Conexant Modem Driver Available

Can anyone suggest a way to use a modem driver for fedora linux? I am really in need of it

http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Ubuntu_7.10/Issues/New_Conexant_Modem_Driver a driver for fedora is available in that link but untested by dell.

Thanks! that solved my problem which I was tearing myself to solve it. But that has a new problem, much less smaller now: I can't use the audio! It's somehow that the snd_hda_intel is overwritten and pulseaudio is messed up with it; xine engine can not initiate audio. Any suggestions? (Thanks!)

sorry I don't have fedora

Thanks bongki55 I took a deep look @ the problem, and saw problem is because of pulseaudio system, not the hsfmodem. It works just fine 4 me.

Actually they've now posted a generic driver: http://linux.dell.com/files/ubuntu/modem-drivers/hsf/

Perhaps it was there all along and I didn't notice. This is a non-crippled oem licensed version of the package sold by linuxant.

A note to Gentoo users, if you want to use this driver use the alsa drivers in the kernel and not the alsa-drivers ebuild (doesn't seem to be compatible).

Matthew

Message Edited by m80 on 11-23-2007 09:51 AM

I use fedora 8, and when I installed the modem driver, After then, I can not change any network properties with system-config-network and the tui one, since whenever I want to save the status, system-config-network crashes with this (This is a bug backtrace):

Component: system-config-network
Version: 1.4.3
Summary: TB83608bd4 Conf.py:1167:__setitem__:NameError: global name 'join' is not defined

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/maindialog.py", line 753, in on_applyButton_clicked
self.save()
File "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/maindialog.py", line 351, in save
self.saveHardware()
File "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/maindialog.py", line 379, in saveHardware
hardwarelist.save()
File "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/NCHardwareList.py", line 765, in save
modules.write()
File "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/conf/Conf.py", line 1195, in write
self[key] = self.vars[key]
File "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/conf/Conf.py", line 1167, in __setitem__
comment = join(cl[1:], '#')
NameError: global name 'join' is not defined

Local variables in innermost frame:
findexp: ^[ ]*install[ ]+snd-via82xx-modem[ ]+
missing: 1
varname: snd-via82xx-modem
self:
cl: ['install snd-via82xx-modem /bin/true ', ' temporarily disabled by hsf - conflicts with hsfmc97via']
value: {'alias': '', 'options': {}, 'install': ['/bin/true', '#', 'temporarily', 'disabled', 'by', 'hsf', '-', 'conflicts', 'with', 'hsfmc97via'], 'remove': []}
replace: install snd-via82xx-modem /bin/true # temporarily disabled by hsf - conflicts with hsfmc97via
place: 0
key: install
endofline: /bin/true # temporarily disabled by hsf - conflicts with hsfmc97via



If anyone could help, or tell me which forum and where is the best I can post these, I would be delighted.

I have a inspiron 640m which is really unsupported by dell when it comes to linux. As suggested by the dell website I clean installed 7.10 after backup of my homefolder/partition.Now everything is working including the conexant driver,wireless and sound.I also did not have to modify the graphics driver in order to get the 1024x800 resolution. My suggestion is to clean install 7.10.Backup all the home folder in 7.04. Also use aptoncd to backup the packages that you downloaded in 7.04 most importly the plugins for video and multimedia(although you can always install them once 7.10 is up) Good Luck!

For Karien, I tried PClinuxOS live cd and used the rpm file of the conexant modem provided by dell with no problem. Pclinuxos is mandriva based not fedora...

Hi Since I have kubuntu 7.10, I tried the version of the driver as reported here: http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Ubuntu_7.10/Issues/New_Conexant_Modem_Driver but this makes my soundcard stop working (after reboot); besides the modem itself does not seem to work at all... during the installation I got this: Warning: no device detected by hsf driver - HDA modems may require reboot Note: HDA support not compiled in the driver (requires a 2.6.16 or later kernel) Note: kernel module snd-via82xx-modem overridden by hsfmc97via Note: kernel module snd-intel8x0m overridden by hsfmc97ich hsfmc97sis Note: kernel module snd-atiixp-modem overridden by hsfmc97ati I don't know whether this is due to linux-backports-modules which I had to install to make the sound card work (see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Gutsy_Intel_HD_Audio_Controller). If I remove the hsf deb package the sound card goes back to life. Is there any way to solve this issue? thanks in advance Lore

(sorry, let me repost this with correct carriage returns)

Hi

Since I have kubuntu 7.10, I tried the version of the driver as reported here: http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Ubuntu_7.10/Issues/New_Conexant_Modem_Driver but this makes my soundcard stop working (after reboot);

besides the modem itself does not seem to work at all...

during the installation I got this:

Warning: no device detected by hsf driver - HDA modems may require reboot

Note: HDA support not compiled in the driver (requires a 2.6.16 or later kernel)

Note: kernel module snd-via82xx-modem overridden by hsfmc97via
Note: kernel module snd-intel8x0m overridden by hsfmc97ich hsfmc97sis
Note: kernel module snd-atiixp-modem overridden by hsfmc97ati

I don't know whether this is due to linux-backports-modules which I had to install to make the sound card work (see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Gutsy_Intel_HD_Audio_Controller).

If I remove the hsf deb package the sound card goes back to life.

Is there any way to solve this issue?

thanks in advance
Lore

i have some trouble on dell 6400 (1505) =\ when i open many sites and have highe traffic (open sites with many img for example) - system freeze=\ over wi-fi/lan all right, this is not browser etc problem i use Debian testing, kernel 2.6.22-SMP, and tried all drivers (*04,*18 from dell; licensed from linuxant), try change speed via AT commands, but it not help=( system full freeze, and no msgs in logs =\ linuxant support not help

Message Edited by slav0nic on 12-22-2007 01:40 PM