[hsflinux] Conexant ACLink no ttySHSF0 after reinstall

[Linuxant modem support]

Hi,

you can try to run "depmod --all" after booting your system and before
loading the driver modules. Some people using Mandrake mentionned that they
have to run this command before they can use the modem properly.

Also, you might have an IRQ related problem.

You can try playing with the following kernel boot parameters :
"pci=noacpi", "acpi=off", "noapic" and/or "apm=off".

If that doesn't work, I suggest that you configure and install a generic 2.4
kernel with the ACPI patches found on this web site:
http://sf.net/projects/acpi

If you use a custom kernel, you will then need to install the generic HSF
driver (instead of a driver specific to one distribution/kernel) and compile
the modules with "hsfconfig".

Regards,

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


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Sorby" <s.sorby at virgin.net>
To: <hsflinux at lists.linuxant.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 3:35 PM
Subject: [hsflinux] Conexant ACLink no ttySHSF0 after reinstall


Last week I decided to install Mandrake 9.1 on my new HP pavilion ze5354
laptop,
as I had hoped the install went flawlessly with everything being installed
(except the modem)

I had previously downloaded the HSF drivers from linuxant so I just browsed
to
them and double clicked them and they installed ok,
I su'd and ran hsfconfig and took all the default options offered.

Into kppp and Im browsing,,,, sweet as honey,,,
as you can Imagine I was well pleased to be online with my new linux laptop.
it didnt last, being a relative noob and spurred on by the modem success, I
went wandering saying what happens if I do this and whats this for.

Anyway I found myself in the KDE kernel configuration module and was looking
around as
I thought this was showing me the config of the kernel,, how interesting
(fool) anyway before I knew what was happening it was compiling (oops)
and it failed.. no surprises there!!
next reboot no linux even in failsafe,,, ok so I wont do that again!! but
thats how I learn..

so I went for the reinstall thinking no problems and I'll find out what I
did and maybe how to fix it when Im online again.
I installed everything as I did before (99% certain) except this time kppp
says unable to open modem, and there is no ttySHSF0 or symlink in the /dev
directory.
Im totally lost as to why it was there and working perfectly before with the
same config but not this time.

I have tried all the inf files I even tried adding "noapic" to the lilo.conf
which gave me the files ttySHSF0 and the symlink, but kppp got the modem
busy message on query.

could anyone shed some light on why this is happening.
I have read through the archive but any relevant posts dont seem to have had
it working from the outset.

any ideas or even comments on how stupid i was are quite welcome.

Attached hsfconfig --dumpdiag.

Thanks
Scott