[hsflinux] Re: New hsflinmodem-5.03.03.L2mbsibeta02060100 Fails

[Jeff Wiegley, Ph.D.]

The new version of the hsf drivers doersn't work for my
Dell Inspiron 4100

Any access attempt on /dev/ttySHSF0 results in this being
logged...

Jun 10 01:02:02 localhost kernel:  <1>Unable to handle kernel NULL
pointer dereference at virtual address 00000004
Jun 10 01:02:02 localhost kernel:  printing eip:
Jun 10 01:02:02 localhost kernel: c011acc5
Jun 10 01:02:02 localhost kernel: *pde = 00000000
Jun 10 01:02:02 localhost kernel: Oops: 0002
Jun 10 01:02:02 localhost kernel: CPU:    0
Jun 10 01:02:02 localhost kernel: EIP:    0010:[<c011acc5>]    Tainted:
P 
Jun 10 01:02:02 localhost kernel: EFLAGS: 00010046
Jun 10 01:02:02 localhost kernel: eax: c71cba14   ebx: 00000000   ecx:
c6619e5c   edx: c6619e54
Jun 10 01:02:02 localhost kernel: esi: 00000246   edi: c71cb9c0   ebp:
c6619e7c   esp: c6619e28
Jun 10 01:02:02 localhost kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
Jun 10 01:02:02 localhost kernel: Process cat (pid: 11061,
stackpage=c6619000)
Jun 10 01:02:02 localhost kernel: Stack: c6618000 c8ae9000 c8ae78c8
00000000 00000000 00000001 c6dcf720 00000000 
Jun 10 01:02:02 localhost kernel:        c6618000 00000000 00000000
00000000 c6618000 00000000 00000000 00000000 
Jun 10 01:02:02 localhost kernel:        c017eb4b c71cb9c0 c71cb9c0
c8ae9000 c3c2c000 c6619eac c8ae7c7f c3c2c000 
Jun 10 01:02:02 localhost kernel: Call Trace: [<c8ae9000>] [<c8ae78c8>]
[<c017eb4b>] [<c8ae9000>] [<c8ae7c7f>] 
Jun 10 01:02:02 localhost kernel:    [<c013661b>] [<c017f858>]
[<c012c0a3>] [<c0146d7b>] [<c014756f>] [<c017560c>] 
Jun 10 01:02:02 localhost kernel:    [<c013bd43>] [<c013bc68>]
[<c013c003>] [<c010902b>] 
Jun 10 01:02:02 localhost kernel: 
Jun 10 01:02:02 localhost kernel: Code: 89 4b 04 89 5a 08 89 41 04 89 08
56 9d 8b 1c 24 8b 74 24 04 

this results in segmentation fault for the user space program
attempting the access.

Any ideas?

- Jeff