[hsflinux] Giving up on Linuxant hsf

[Linuxant support]

Hi,

I sent you another email about your payment.

As for the problem you described (strange sounds during the handshake), you
can follow this procedure to create an audio dump of you connection.

1) Create a directory in "/etc/hsfmodem" called "dcprecord" by running the
following command in a root console.

mkdir /etc/hsfmodem/dcprecord


2) Change your modem initialization string to include the "AT" command "M2".

If you use vwdial (network configuration), edit "/etc/wvdial.conf" to change
"M1" to "M2" in the modem initialization string. "M2" tells the modem to
keep the speaker active all the time during the connection, as opposed to
being active only during the negociation. You can put back "M1" after the
tests.


3) Run a few connection/transfer tests (2 should be enough).


4) Compress and remove "/etc/hsfmodem/dcprecord". It's important not to
leave the "dcprecord" directory, or else the sound files will eventually use
all your hard drive space. You can run these commands in a root console.

cd /etc/hsfmodem
tar -zcv --remove-files -f /tmp/dcprecord.tar.gz dcprecord
rmdir dcprecord


5) Send us the file "/tmp/dcprecord.tar.gz".

Thank you,

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


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter B. West" <pbwest at powerup.com.au>
To: <hsflinux at lists.linuxant.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 10:06 AM
Subject: [hsflinux] Giving up on Linuxant hsf


Having paid my money to discover that the non-free driver didn't work on
my system, and having no responses to my previous questions, I have
purchased a cheap external serial modem, with which I am sending this
message.

The issue was brought to a head for me by the discovery that, while the
beta driver had worked well with the modems of my previous ISP, it
performed woefully with my new supplier.  The "commercial" driver didn't
work at all, so I had to do something.  I have still paid less for the
combination of Conexant HSF modem and Linuxant driver than for the
serial modem, but it works, it stays connected, and has good throughput.

If Linuxant would put through a credit against my purchase of the
non-working driver, they can disable my registration, and I'll put it
down to experience.

-- 
Peter B. West <http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/resume.html>