[hsflinux] modem hangs up in few minutes

[Linuxant modem support]

Hi,

The termination cause says "n400 exceeded". We had other reports of this bug
and we hope to be able to provide a fix soon.

Please be patient as we have a lot to take care of and our resources are
very limited at this time.

Regards,

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


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mengxiong Gong" <mgong758 at hotmail.com>
To: <modem.support at linuxant.com>
Cc: <hsflinux at lists.mbsi.ca>
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 10:49 PM
Subject: Re: [hsflinux] modem hangs up in few minutes


Hi, Jean_Simon:

I have tried again to use Dana Lacoste's script to connect internet (using
Konquerror as browser), the modem hang up in a couple minutes. The following
is the message after I run the command: cat
/proc/driver/hsf/0/lastcallstatus  right after getting disconnected:

[...]

Please give your ideas. Thank you very much!

Michael Gong


>From: Linuxant modem support <modem.support at linuxant.com>
>To: Mengxiong Gong <mgong758 at hotmail.com>
>CC: hsflinux at lists.mbsi.ca
>Subject: Re: [hsflinux] modem hangs up in few minutes
>Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 13:10:18 -0400
>
>Hi,
>
>please don't forget to run "cat /proc/driver/hsf/0/lastcallstatus" right
>after getting disconnected and send us the output.
>
>Thank you,
>
>Jean-Simon Durand
>Technical specialist / Linuxant
>www.linuxant.com
>modem.support at linuxant.com
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mengxiong Gong" <mgong758 at hotmail.com>
>To: <dana.lacoste at peregrine.com>
>Cc: <hsflinux at lists.mbsi.ca>
>Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 11:39 PM
>Subject: Re: [hsflinux] modem hangs up in few minutes
>
>
>Hi, Dana:
>
>Thank you very much for your prompt reply and wonderful help. I have tried
>a
>few connection using your methods exactly. The situation has got improved:
>the internet connection can last 3-30 minutes (instead of lasting only a
>few
>minutes before), althogh the problem has not been solved completely. I
>think
>that besides the priority issue, there might be also other probelms. I will
>use other browse other than Konquror to try again.
>
>I appreciate for your help.
>
>Michael Gong
>
>
> >From: Dana Lacoste <dana.lacoste at peregrine.com>
> >To: Mengxiong Gong <mgong758 at hotmail.com>
> >CC: hsflinux at lists.mbsi.ca
> >Subject: Re: [hsflinux] modem hangs up in few minutes
> >Date: 20 Jun 2003 13:51:51 -0400
> >
> >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