[hcflinux] hcf modem driver crashes my Gentoo 2.6.1 box

[Linuxant support (Jean-Simon)]

Hi,

try to run "modprobe /dev/ttySHCF" instead of "modprobe hcfpciserial". With
2.6, the later does not work anymore.

Also, please run "modprobe -V" to verify which version of modprobe you have
and include the content of the files '/etc/modules.conf' and
'/etc/modprobe.conf'.

Make sure that you are running the latest version of the HCF driver because
some problems with 2.6 have recently been fixed.

Regards,

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


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Ballantyne" <rb62 at cornell.edu>
To: <hcflinux at lists.linuxant.com>
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 3:57 PM
Subject: [hcflinux] hcf modem driver crashes my Gentoo 2.6.1 box


First I want to thank linuxant for releasing a 2.6.x compatable HCF modem
driver.  But I want you to know that it only partially works for me and
here's why...

The driver installs and works just fine on my Gentoo box _but_ it only works
if I first run hcfpciconfig prior to using the modem.  Normally you would
only have to run hcfpciconfig once during the modem driver installation.
However, I have to run it after _each_and_every_reboot_ because if I dont
then my machine will crash when I start to use the modem.  The reason why it
crashes is because all the memory gets used up; the system starts endlessly
creating sh and modprobe processes which I can see when I do a ps -A.  As I
said, eventually my box locks up and I have to reboot it.  The lock up also
occurs if I run modprobe "hfcpciserial" at startup (in my
/etc/modules.autoload) without first running hfcpciconfig.

This is a very serious failure mode because it could cause me to lose data.
My filesystems are reiserfs and I prefer to have both read and write caching
enabled using hdparm.  I don't like to reboot my computer when the
filesystems haven't been cleanly unmounted.

In the past I used to used the beta version of the hcf modem and everything
worked.  I only recently needed to use the newer 2.6.x compatable HCF driver
because I switched to the 2.6.x kernel.  Now I just spent $15 and am
dissatisfied because it only partially works for me.  This is a very
annoying
bug.  I read through the hcfpciconfig script in an attempt to discover how
it
loads the hcf modules without crashing my box but I couldn't figure it out.
I shouldn't have to do this anyway because I payed for the driver which
isn't
GPL.  Anyone else experience this bug?

cheers,
Richard Ballantyne