[hsflinux] Re: kppp reporting 'unable to open modem'

[Guerreiro da Luz]

On 12/14/05, Nate Bargmann <n0nb at networksplus.net> wrote:
> * Guerreiro da Luz <g.da.luz at gmail.com> [2005 Dec 14 11:41 -0600]:
> > On 12/14/05, Linuxant support (Jonathan) <support at linuxant.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > the source of the problem could be either kppp, the kernel of the HSF
> > > modem driver. You are the first user which have reported this issue and
> > > we will investigate if other users report it as well. If this is a bug
> > > in the HSF modem driver, it will be fixed in a future release of the driver.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> >
> > I just tried deleting 2.6.14 workaround in serial_cnxt.c and
> > recompiling, but to no avail.
>
> Okay, hopefully I can shed a bit more light based on experiments I did
> today.
>
> I followed Guerreiro's advice and was sure to exit minicom with the
> Ctl-a q key sequence whereupon kppp worked wonderfully.  I might add
> that the hsfmodem gives a far better throughput with compression than
> the 56k PCMCIA modem I was using--good work!
>
> Now to troubleshoot this further I rebooted in my KNOPPIX 4.0.2
> partition and installed the hsfmodem binary package for its kernel
> 2.6.12 and kppp worked flawlessly and speedily with my license key
> applied.  This confirms my assertion that this package worked about six
> weeks back with a Debian 2.6.12 kernel.
>
> Back to Sid with 2.6.14 and a bit more experimentation.  At first we
> (co-worker and me) thought it might be an initialization string issue,
> but it wasn't.  In kppp one can search for the modem and with the
> default of hardware flow control, kppp reports modem not responding.  I
> next tried the modem search with flow control set to None and it found
> the hsfmodem devices.  I tried connecting to my ISP in this fashion and
> it didn't work.  So, I went to the third option and set the flow
> control to soft (XON/XOFF) and now the modem is found, configured, and
> a connection to the ISP works well as in KNOPPIX.
>
> Guerreiro, can you try setting your kppp's flow control to soft and see
> if that works?  Make sure to reboot so the hsfmodem is in its default
> state.

Nate,

Great work - with software flow control, it works for me too (with
vanilla 2.6.14.3 kernel and without anything changed in
serial_cnxt.c).

Regards.