<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2715.400" name=GENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=#ffffff>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face=Arial>
<P>Dear Friends,</FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></P><FONT
face=Arial>
<P>I am a new to Linux world. My system configurations is an Athlon XP-1800 with
PCI modem. the modem is recognized as a softek modem in windows O/S. The modem
is manufactured by CONEXANT. From the manufacturer site when i try to search for
the drivers i was redirected to this site.</FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman">
</FONT></P><FONT face=Arial>
<P>I want to change my O/S to Linux and learn it more. I installed Mandrake 9.0.
The O/S couldn't recognize the modem automatically and i downloaded the HSF
modem drivers and installed. I could do the installation successful and it says
the modem will be identified as </P>
<P>/dev/ttySHSF0.</FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></P><FONT
face=Arial>
<P>When I went to the /dev directory I couldn’t locate any such file. When i use
the default modem as /ttyS0, I get the modem not responding message.</FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></P><FONT face=Arial>
<P>Can you guys please help me on how to come out of this and load the modem in
Mandrake Linux.</FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </P><FONT face=Arial>
<P>Regards</FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></P><FONT face=Arial>
<P>Velli</P></FONT></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>