[hsflinux] CONEXANT 127A: 4311 taint the kernel errors

[Bruno Miranda]

I logged in to the root as and administrator but I still receive the 
tainted error message. I have  RedHat Linux 8.0 on a Hp 8650C would love 
to get my modem working as having Linux with no internet is not a viable 
option for me I am really new to Linux. I installed it to learn more 
about it but the Modem is really killing me. If some kind person could 
please help resolve this problem I would be most thankful to him.

Thanks,

Bruno Miranda.

[bjdesa at localhost bjdesa]$ /bin/sh listmodem.sh
=============================================================
=                  RESULT OF MODEM QUERY                    =
=============================================================

MODEM #1:
  PCI CONFIGURATION INFORMATION READ:
     Vendor Id         : 127A
     Device Id         : 4311
     Revision Id       : 1
     Sub Vendor Id     : 1235
     Sub Device Id     : 4311

  DEDUCED INFORMATION:
     Vendor Name       : CONEXANT
     Device Name       : HSF Data/Fax/TAM/Speakerphone
     Modem Type        : HSF
     Download Site     : http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv/

[root at localhost bjdesa]# rpm -i 
hsflinmodem-5.03.03.L3mbsibeta02101001k2.4.18_14-1rh.i686.rpm
Linux HSF softmodem drivers, version 5.03.03.L3mbsibeta02101001

WARNING: this is an EXPERIMENTAL BETA VERSION of the HSF drivers for Linux.
USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! See the file /usr/lib/hsf/LICENSE for details.

Conexant Systems neither distributes nor maintains this package.
PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT CONEXANT REGARDING THIS SOFTWARE!!!
If you require assistance or need more information, go to:
              http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv

DEVICE 127A:4311 IS A RIPTIDE HSF MODEM

NOTE: You should also install the RIPTIDE driver in addition to this one
Please see http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv/riptide

Selected PCI VendorID=127A DeviceID=4311
and INF file /etc/hsf/inf/linux_hsf.inf

Configuring modem for country: "USA"
You can change this setting later with the command "hsfconfig --country"

Pre-built HSF modules that seem compatible with your system were found under
/usr/lib/hsf/modules/binaries/i686/RedHat/linux-2.4.18-14.

Your HSF modem should now be accessible as /dev/ttySHSF0
or through the symbolic link /dev/modem.

[root at localhost bjdesa]# ls -l /dev/ttySHSF0
crw-rw-rw-    1 root     root     240,  64 Oct 26 22:19 /dev/ttySHSF0

root at localhost bjdesa]# /sbin/modprobe hsfserial
Warning: loading 
/usr/lib/hsf/modules/binaries/i686/RedHat/linux-2.4.18-14/hsfosspec.o 
will taint the kernel: non-GPL license - Copyright (C) 1996-2001 
Conexant Systems Inc. All Rights Reserved.  See 
http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about tainted 
modules
Module hsfosspec loaded, with warnings
Warning: loading 
/usr/lib/hsf/modules/binaries/i686/RedHat/linux-2.4.18-14/hsfengine.o 
will taint the kernel: non-GPL license - Copyright (C) 1996-2001 
Conexant Systems Inc. All Rights Reserved.Module hsfengine loaded, with 
warnings
Module hsfserial loaded, with warnings

[root at localhost bjdesa]# dmesg
Linux version 2.4.18-14 (bhcompile at stripples.devel.redhat.com) (gcc 
version 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)) #1 Wed Sep 4 13:35:50 
EDT 2002
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000e7400 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000fef0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000fef0000 - 000000000feffc00 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000feffc00 - 000000000ff00000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000ff00000 - 0000000010000000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
254MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 65264
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 61168 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: initrd=initrd.img hdc=ide-scsi root=/dev/hdb3 
BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz
ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 534.549 MHz processor.
Speakup v-1.00 CVS: Tue Jun 11 14:22:53 EDT 2002 : initialized
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1061.43 BogoMIPS
Memory: 251988k/261056k available (1326k kernel code, 6644k reserved, 
999k data, 212k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
ramfs: mounted with options: <defaults>
ramfs: max_pages=31753 max_file_pages=0 max_inodes=0 max_dentries=31753
Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 128K
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU:     After generic, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU:             Common caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Celeron (Mendocino) stepping 05
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch at atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd99e, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Unknown bridge resource 2: assuming transparent
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/2410] at 00:1f.0
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 01:08.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:01.0
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 01:09.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:1f.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 01:09.1
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
speakup:  initialized device: /dev/synth, node (MAJOR 10, MINOR 25)
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
Starting kswapd
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized
pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT 
SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
oprofile: mapping APIC.
oprofile: enabled local APIC. Err code 00000000
oprofile 0.2 loaded, major 254
block: 480 slots per queue, batch=120
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev f9
PIIX4: chipset revision 2
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x10a0-0x10a7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0x10a8-0x10af, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:DMA
hda: WDC WD600BB-00CAA0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct10 20, ATA DISK drive
hdc: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 8000, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-114 0124, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
blk: queue c03c0004, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
blk: queue c03c0004, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hda: 117231408 sectors (60022 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=7753/240/63, UDMA(33)
blk: queue c03c0140, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
blk: queue c03c0140, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdb: 39876480 sectors (20417 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=2637/240/63, UDMA(33)
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 >
 hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 hdb4 < hdb5 >
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 139k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.25
PCI: Enabling device 01:08.0 (0100 -> 0103)
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 01:08.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:01.0
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: D-Link DFE-538TX (RealTek RTL8139) at 0xd0851000, 
00:50:ba:58:57:0f, IRQ 9
eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 212k freed
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 13:44:31 Sep  4 2002
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1f.2
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.2 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1080, IRQ 11
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech at suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.18, 14 May 2002 on ide0(3,67), internal journal
Adding Swap: 521600k swap-space (priority -1)
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.18, 14 May 2002 on ide0(3,66), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
hdd: ATAPI DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
  Vendor: HP        Model: CD-Writer+ 8000   Rev: 2.5C
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
ohci1394: pci_module_init failed
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
eth0: Setting half-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 0000.
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 202M
agpgart: Detected an Intel i810 Chipset.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000
memory : c1bc1920
memory : 00000000
memory : c1bc1960
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 20x/20x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
PCI: Enabling device 01:09.1 (0300 -> 0302)
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 01:09.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:1f.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 01:09.0