[hsflinux] modem hangs up in few minutes

[Linuxant modem support]

Hi,

indeed, the compression code is in the modem engine, which is closed source.

We will keep you informed of our progress and we appreciate your offer to
provide testing assistance.

Regards,

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


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Burchill" <hsflinux at burchill.net>
To: "Linuxant modem support" <modem.support at linuxant.com>
Cc: <hsflinux at lists.mbsi.ca>
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 8:27 AM
Subject: Re: [hsflinux] modem hangs up in few minutes


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