[hcflinux] Problems with RH.8.0 and Compaq Presario

Thu Jun 26 15:09:16 EDT 2003

Hi,

I've seen similar problems from people trying to use the modem in Australia.
They had to modify the FLAGS and RELAYS settings in the modem's country file
(/etc/hcfpci/current.cty). Try to overwrite these settings.

---

HKR,Country\09,RELAYS,1,\
2F,0C,00,00,\
0F,04,00,00,\
0C,04,00,00,\
08,04,00,00,\
0D,04,00,00,\
0F,04,00,00,\
09,04,00,00,\
0B,04,00,00,\
08,04,00,00,\
0B,04,00,00,\
08,04,00,00,\
08,04,00,00

HKR,Country\09,FLAGS,1,00,00,08,00

---

Please let us know if it works. You might have to also overwrite the FLAGS
in the "current.inf", but please try first without changing this file. Make
sure you run "hcfpcistop" to unload the modules before testing.

Thank you,

Jean-Simon Durand
Technical specialist / Linuxant
www.linuxant.com
modem.support at linuxant.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Lowe" <robglowe at hotmail.com>
To: <jsimon at linuxant.com>; <hcflinux at lists.mbsi.ca>
Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2003 10:37 PM
Subject: Re: [hcflinux] Problems with RH.8.0 and Compaq Presario

Hi Jean-Simon,

Thanks for your response, sorry I've taken so long to respond. I decieded to
upgrade to RedHat 9.0 (kernel version: 2.4.20-8) and re-installed the HCF
drivers and disable the PCMCIA (Yenta) drivers. These changes gave me some
progress - I can now initialize the modem and dial out and can hear it
connecting, but it just can't seem to fully negiotate the connection. I've
also tried the apci/apm kernel flags, but still not much success. I haven't
tried the kernel recompile yet. As before, the output from hcipciconfig -d
can be found at http://rl.iwarp.com/hcfdiag-txt.htm .

And here's the entries in /var/log/messages:

Jun 22 11:45:15 localhost ifup-ppp: Setting up a new /etc/ppp/peers/ppp0
config file
Jun 22 11:45:15 localhost ifup-ppp: pppd started for ppp0 on /dev/modem at
57600
Jun 22 11:45:15 localhost kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the
University of California
Jun 22 11:45:15 localhost kernel: PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
Jun 22 11:45:15 localhost pppd[1869]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0
Jun 22 11:45:16 localhost kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:09.1
Jun 22 11:45:16 localhost kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:08.0
Jun 22 11:45:16 localhost kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:09.0
Jun 22 11:45:16 localhost kernel: HCF ASIC ID: 210
Jun 22 11:45:16 localhost kernel: HCF DATAPUMP PART: '71' REV: 'BA'
Jun 22 11:45:16 localhost insmod: Warning: loading
/usr/lib/hcfpci/modules/binaries/i686/rh/linux-2.4.20-8/hcfpciosspec.o will
taint the kernel: non-GPL license - Copyright (C) 1996-2002 Conexant Systems
Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Jun 22 11:45:16 localhost insmod:   See
http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about tainted
modules
Jun 22 11:45:16 localhost insmod: Module hcfpciosspec loaded, with warnings
Jun 22 11:45:16 localhost insmod: Warning: loading
/usr/lib/hcfpci/modules/binaries/i686/rh/linux-2.4.20-8/hcfpciengine.o will
taint the kernel: non-GPL license - Copyright (C) 1996-2002 Conexant Systems
Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Jun 22 11:45:16 localhost insmod: Module hcfpciengine loaded, with warnings
Jun 22 11:45:16 localhost insmod: Module hcfpciserial loaded, with warnings
Jun 22 11:45:18 localhost wvdial[1895]: WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.53
Jun 22 11:45:18 localhost wvdial[1895]: Initializing modem.
Jun 22 11:45:18 localhost wvdial[1895]: Sending: ATZ
Jun 22 11:45:18 localhost wvdial[1895]: ATZ
Jun 22 11:45:18 localhost wvdial[1895]: OK
Jun 22 11:45:18 localhost wvdial[1895]: Modem initialized.
Jun 22 11:45:18 localhost wvdial[1895]: Sending: ATDT38729855
Jun 22 11:45:18 localhost wvdial[1895]: Waiting for carrier.
Jun 22 11:45:20 localhost wvdial[1895]: ATDT38729855
Jun 22 11:45:50 localhost kernel: 3979362.748: HCF: speed index (0) too low
go to V34, Pump reported 23
Jun 22 11:46:20 localhost wvdial[1895]: Timed out while dialing.  Trying
again.
Jun 22 11:46:20 localhost wvdial[1895]: Sending: ATDT38729855
Jun 22 11:46:20 localhost wvdial[1895]: Waiting for carrier.
Jun 22 11:46:20 localhost wvdial[1895]: Timed out while dialing.  Trying
again.
Jun 22 11:46:21 localhost wvdial[1895]: Sending: ATDT38729855
Jun 22 11:46:21 localhost wvdial[1895]: Waiting for carrier.
Jun 22 11:46:21 localhost wvdial[1895]: Timed out while dialing.  Trying
again.
Jun 22 11:46:22 localhost wvdial[1895]: Sending: ATDT38729855
Jun 22 11:46:22 localhost wvdial[1895]: Waiting for carrier.
Jun 22 11:46:22 localhost wvdial[1895]: Timed out while dialing.  Trying
again.
Jun 22 11:46:22 localhost wvdial[1895]: Sending: ATDT38729855
Jun 22 11:46:22 localhost wvdial[1895]: Waiting for carrier.
Jun 22 11:46:22 localhost wvdial[1895]: NO CARRIER
Jun 22 11:46:22 localhost wvdial[1895]: No Carrier!  Trying again.
Jun 22 11:46:23 localhost wvdial[1895]: Sending: ATDT38729855
Jun 22 11:46:23 localhost wvdial[1895]: Waiting for carrier.
Jun 22 11:46:24 localhost wvdial[1895]: ATDT38729855
Jun 22 11:46:38 localhost pppd[1869]: Terminating on signal 15.
Jun 22 11:46:38 localhost wvdial[1895]: Disconnecting at Sun Jun 22 11:46:38
2003
Jun 22 11:46:38 localhost kernel: 3979411.051: HCF: !!!DM ERROR: tone
dialing, TDBE timeout???
Jun 22 11:46:38 localhost pppd[1869]: Connect script failed
Jun 22 11:46:39 localhost pppd[1869]: Exit.

Thanks for the help you've provided so far. I'm still very keen to get this
going, so any further assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks and Regards,
Rob.

>From: Jean-Simon Durand <jsimon at linuxant.com>
>To: Rob Lowe <robglowe at hotmail.com>, hcflinux at lists.mbsi.ca
>Subject: Re: [hcflinux] Problems with RH.8.0 and Compaq Presario
>Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 05:41:07 -0400
>
>Hi,
>
>I believe your probem is related to the IRQ assignment because of these
>messages in the ouput of "dmesg".
>
>---
>PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:08.0
>PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:09.0
>PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:09.1
>Yenta IRQ list 0898, PCI irq9
>PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:09.1
>PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:08.0
>PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:09.0
>---
>
>You should try the kernel options "acpi=off" and/or "apm=off". If that
>doesn't work, you can try to configure and install a generic kernel with
>the
>ACPI patches found on this web site: http://sf.net/projects/acpi
>
>Please let us know about your results.
>
>Jean-Simon
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Rob Lowe" <robglowe at hotmail.com>
>To: <hcflinux at lists.mbsi.ca>
>Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 7:03 AM
>Subject: [hcflinux] Problems with RH.8.0 and Compaq Presario
>
>
>Hi,
>
>I have a Compaq Presario (17XL series) and can successfully use my modem
>under Windows 2000 (listed as "Compaq Global 56K V90 HCF MiniPCI Modem").
>But when I try it under my RedHat 8.0 (using the
>hcfpcimodem-0.99lnxtbeta03042700k2.4.18_14-1rh.i686.rpm package). The
>installation works fine, but when I attempt to dial out, I see the
>following
>in /var/log/messages:
>
>Jun  9 19:20:18 localhost ifup-ppp: pppd started for ppp0 on /dev/ttySHCF0
>at 460800
>Jun  9 19:20:18 localhost kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the
>University of California
>Jun  9 19:20:18 localhost kernel: PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
>Jun  9 19:20:18 localhost pppd[1472]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0
>Jun  9 19:20:20 localhost kernel: PCI: Enabling device 00:09.1 (0000 ->
>0003)
>Jun  9 19:20:20 localhost kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:09.1
>Jun  9 19:20:20 localhost kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:08.0
>Jun  9 19:20:20 localhost kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:09.0
>Jun  9 19:20:20 localhost kernel: HCF ASIC ID: 210
>Jun  9 19:20:20 localhost kernel: 2883431.866: HCF: DEVMGR ERROR: DpReset:
>timed out waiting for checksum 1
>Jun  9 19:20:20 localhost kernel: 2883431.866: HCF: DEVMGR ERROR!!!!
>DpReset
>returns FALSE, attempt=0
>Jun  9 19:20:20 localhost kernel: 2883432.371: HCF: DEVMGR ERROR: DpReset:
>timed out waiting for checksum 1
>Jun  9 19:20:20 localhost kernel: 2883432.371: HCF: DEVMGR ERROR!!!!
>DpReset
>returns FALSE, attempt=1
>Jun  9 19:20:20 localhost kernel: 2883432.876: HCF: DEVMGR ERROR: DpReset:
>timed out waiting for checksum 1
>Jun  9 19:20:20 localhost kernel: 2883432.876: HCF: DEVMGR ERROR!!!!
>DpReset
>returns FALSE, attempt=2
>Jun  9 19:20:20 localhost insmod: Warning: loading
>/usr/lib/hcfpci/modules/binaries/i686/rh/linux-2.4.18-14/hcfpciosspec.o
>will
>taint the kernel: non-GPL license - Copyright (C) 1996-2002 Conexant
>Systems
>Inc. All Rights Reserved.
>Jun  9 19:20:20 localhost kernel: 2883432.876: HCF: DEVMGR Fails
>DM_ActivateHardware
>Jun  9 19:20:20 localhost insmod:   See
>http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about tainted
>modules
>Jun  9 19:20:20 localhost kernel: hcf_request_port: ComCtrlOpen failed,
>r=1!
>Jun  9 19:20:20 localhost insmod: Module hcfpciosspec loaded, with warnings
>Jun  9 19:20:20 localhost insmod: Warning: loading
>/usr/lib/hcfpci/modules/binaries/i686/rh/linux-2.4.18-14/hcfpciengine.o
>will
>taint the kernel: non-GPL license - Copyright (C) 1996-2002 Conexant
>Systems
>Inc. All Rights Reserved.
>Jun  9 19:20:20 localhost insmod: Module hcfpciengine loaded, with warnings
>Jun  9 19:20:20 localhost insmod: Module hcfpciserial loaded, with warnings
>Jun  9 19:20:21 localhost wvdial[1496]: WvDial: Internet dialer version
>1.53
>Jun  9 19:20:21 localhost wvdial[1496]: Initializing modem.
>
>The results from running hcfpciconfig with the diag flag can be found at
>http://rl.iwarp.com/hcfdiag-txt.htm
>
>I would really appreciate some help, if possible.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Rob.