[hsflinux] modem hangs up in few minutes

[Phil Burchill]

Jean-Simon,

I have had a quick look at the source for this driver and the n400
stuff would seem to be in the closed part of the source.  So there is
nothing further I can do here at the moment?  If you need a system to
test any changes on then I would be happy to assist.  I am an
experienced Unix/Linux user so can do most things.  

On doing Pings I have noticed these typically take 1.2s whereas they
should take ~300ms for a modem line line.

One further thing to note RE this Konqureror thing.  What I have
noticed though it might be wrong is that the connection stays up for
more time when I download big files/emails (though it always dies). 
What I would suggest is that when small files require more connections
and that possibly the problem lies in making a new connection.  Perhaps
Konqueror does this more eg asking for index.html.fr as well as
index.html when french is desired?

Regards,

Phil Burchill

On 06-26-2003 02:09 pm, you wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> thank you for testing this. The "n400" issue is still on our bug
list.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jean-Simon Durand
> Technical specialist / Linuxant
> www.linuxant.com
> modem.support at linuxant.com
> 
> ps: "bouncemail" does not currently show up in your hostname (I added
it
> manually to your address bellow). I remember that I had to remove it
the
> last time I sent an email to you, but not this time.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Phil Burchill" <phil at bouncemail.burchill.net>
> To: <hsflinux at lists.mbsi.ca>
> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 7:13 AM
> Subject: Re: [hsflinux] modem hangs up in few minutes
> 
> 
> I tried renicing this proccess and no luck unfortunately.  So it
would
> seem the n400 exceeded issue is not caused by lack of priority.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Phil Burchill
> 
> PS:Remove bouncemail if you wish to mail me.
> 
> On 06-20-2003 01:51 pm, Dana Lacoste <dana.lacoste at peregrine.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > After months and months and months and months
> > of dealing with a similair problem, I added
> > this to my startup scripts :
> >
> > --
> > file /etc/init.d/rest.modem.priority.sh
> > --
> > #!/bin/sh
> >
> > /bin/echo "Increasing priority of HSF modem handler"
> > MODEM_PID=`ps -wwaux|grep cnxthsf_mdmthrd \
> >            |grep -v grep |sed 's/root *//'| \
> >            sed 's/ .*//'`
> >
> > if [ -z "${MODEM_PID}" ] ; then
> >    /bin/echo "WARNING : Could not find modem handler thread"
> > else
> > if [ -n "${MODEM_PID}" ] ; then
> >    /bin/echo "Resetting modem handler priority level"
> >    /usr/bin/renice -10 ${MODEM_PID} > /dev/null 2>&1
> > fi
> > --
> >
> > Basically, the modem driver creats a kernel thread that
> > shows up in the process table with the name "[cnxthsf_mdmthrd]"
> > and I reset the priority level of the process to be -10
> > (it defaults to 0, and lower is better)
> >
> > Now it never crashes (whereas before it would run fine until
> > I put a significant amount of data on the line, when it would
> > die in about 2 minutes)
> >
> > I had no idea you could adjust the priority of kernel threads,
> > but doing this has made the modem unkillable for me, so I'm
> > very very very very happy with it :)
> >
> > (You'd have to copy the text I gave into a file, make the script
> > executable, then run the script sometime after the modem driver
> > loaded.  Seeing as I don't use RedHat, I can't help you do that :)
> >
> > Dana "modem bought in November, modem working in May" Lacoste
> > Ottawa, Canada
> >
> > On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 23:02, Mengxiong Gong wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have system Red Hat 7.3 with kernel 2.4.18-3, and I use the
> driver
> > > hsflinmodem-5.03.27lnxbeta03042700....... The problem I
encountered
> is that
> > > the modem hangs up in  a few minutes after connection to
internet.
> I have
> > > tried several different settings, but they were failed. The
driver
> I use now
> > > seems the most updated version. I don't know what causes this
> problem.
> > > Please give some ideas and instructions. I greatly appreciate.
> > >
> > > Michael Gong
> 
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