Hi,<br><br>my 1st post to the list...<br><br>I've HP nx6125 with ATI's (1002:4378) controller. Being away from home (roaming) and regular adsl connection, I've had a need to setup/configure laptop's modem.<br><br>First I tried with slmodem and atiixp driver, but although modem was dialling, it failed with known NO ANSWER
<br>problem, so I installed hsfmodem driver.<br><br>Since it worked, I wanted to support its development and bought 'full' license.<br><br>However, the driver crashed (too often) and produces something like:<br><br><br>Jul 30 09:03:07 [pppd] Using interface ppp0
<br>Jul 30 09:03:07 [pppd] Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttySHSF0<br>Jul 30 09:03:12 [pppd] PAP authentication succeeded<br>Jul 30 09:03:12 [pppd] local IP address <a href="http://213.202.65.147">213.202.65.147</a><br>Jul 30 09:03:12 [pppd] remote IP address
<a href="http://213.202.65.1">213.202.65.1</a><br>Jul 30 09:03:12 [pppd] primary DNS address <a href="http://213.191.128.8">213.191.128.8</a><br>Jul 30 09:03:12 [pppd] secondary DNS address <a href="http://213.191.128.9">
213.191.128.9</a><br>Jul 30 09:06:21 [kernel] CPU 0<br>Jul 30 09:06:22 [kernel] Modules linked in: vmnet vmmon iptable_raw iptable_mangle ipt_ULOG ipt_TTL ipt_ttl ipt_TOS ipt_tos ipt_TCPMSS ipt_tcpmss ipt_state ipt_sctp ipt_SAME ipt_REJECT ipt_REDIRECT ipt_recent ipt_realm ipt_pkttype ipt_owner ipt_NOTRACK ipt_NETMAP ipt_multiport ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_MARK ipt_mark ipt_mac ipt_LOG ipt_limit ipt_length ipt_iprange ipt_helper ipt_hashlimit ipt_esp ipt_ECN ipt_ecn ipt_DSCP ipt_dscp ipt_conntrack ipt_comment ipt_CLASSIFY ipt_ah ipt_addrtype iptable_nat ip_nat ip_conntrack iptable_filter ip_tables hsfusbcd2 hsfmc97sis hsfmc97ati hsfmc97ali hsfmc97via hsfmc97ich hsfpcibasic2 hsfserial hsfengine hsfosspec hsfsoar snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device yenta_socket rsrc_nonstatic pcmcia_core tg3 8250_pci 8250 serial_core snd_atiixp snd_ac97_codec snd_ac97_bus snd_pcm snd_timer
<br>snd_page_alloc fglrx<br>Jul 30 09:06:22 [kernel] Pid: 7367, comm: khsfd/modem Tainted: P M 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 #23<br>Jul 30 09:06:22 [kernel] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff881930d2>] <ffffffff881930d2>{:hsfengine:hsfengine1716_+50}
<br>Jul 30 09:06:22 [kernel] RSP: 0018:ffff8100439fddb8 EFLAGS: 00010086<br>Jul 30 09:06:22 [kernel] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: f000e3fff000e2c3 RCX: 0000000000000004<br>Jul 30 09:06:22 [kernel] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000020004 RDI: f000e3fff000e2c3
<br>Jul 30 09:06:22 [kernel] RBP: 0000000000000032 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000<br>Jul 30 09:06:22 [kernel] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000020004<br>Jul 30 09:06:22 [kernel] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000001
<br>Jul 30 09:06:22 [kernel] FS: 00002aaaaaf03ae0(0000) GS:ffffffff804e9800(0000) knlGS:00000000556aa6b0<br>Jul 30 09:06:22 [kernel] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b<br>Jul 30 09:06:22 [kernel] CR2: 00002aaab03a9000 CR3: 000000003bc82000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
<br>Jul 30 09:06:22 [kernel] Process khsfd/modem (pid: 7367, threadinfo ffff8100439fc000, task ffff8100460e4240)<br>Jul 30 09:06:22 [kernel] Stack: 0000000000000001 0000000000000032 ffff810043f2b800 ffff8100439fde68<br>Jul 30 09:06:22 [kernel] 0000000000000001 ffffffff88197031 ffff810043f2b800 0000000000000032
<br>Jul 30 09:06:22 [kernel] 0000000000000032 ffff8100439fde68<br>Jul 30 09:06:22 [kernel] Call Trace:<ffffffff88197031>{:hsfengine:hsfengine1668_+65} <ffffffff88195b44>{:hsfengine:hsfengine200_+100}<br>
Jul 30 09:06:22 [kernel] <ffffffff882f6370>{:hsfserial:cnxt_intr+624} <ffffffff88150555>{:hsfosspec:cnxt_thread+453}<br>Jul 30 09:06:22 [kernel] <ffffffff8012d470>{default_wake_function+0} <ffffffff8012d470>{default_wake_function+0}
<br>Jul 30 09:06:22 [kernel] <ffffffff8010f3f6>{child_rip+8} <ffffffff88150390>{:hsfosspec:cnxt_thread+0}<br>Jul 30 09:06:22 [kernel] <ffffffff8010f3ee>{child_rip+0}<br>Jul 30 09:06:22 [kernel] Code: 48 8b 6f 08 48 89 ef e8 12 f9 ff ff ba 01 00 00 00 85 c0 75
<br>Jul 30 09:06:22 [kernel] RIP <ffffffff881930d2>{:hsfengine:hsfengine1716_+50} RSP <ffff8100439fddb8><br><br><br><br>...or sometimes completely freezes my machine - here is some system info:<br>nitai gour # uname -a
<br>Linux nitai 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 #23 Fri Jul 28 10:02:46 CEST 2006 x86_64 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile ML-34 GNU/Linux<br><br><br>nitai gour # gcc -v<br>Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/specs<br>Configured with: /var/tmp/portage/gcc-
3.4.5/work/gcc-3.4.5/configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.4.5 --includedir=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/include --datadir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5 --mandir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/man --infodir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/info --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/include/g++-v3 --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --disable-altivec --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --with-system-zlib --disable-checking --disable-werror --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-multilib --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77 --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu
<br>Thread model: posix<br>gcc version 3.4.5 (Gentoo 3.4.5, ssp-3.4.5-1.0, pie-8.7.9)<br><br><br><br>The version of the driver is hsfmodem-7.47.00.01-r1 (I'm on Gentoo amd64).<br><br>Soon i'll be back on broadband, but, still, I'd like to have more stable 'backup' Internet-solution for my laptop.
<br><br>Any idea?<br><br>I don't know whether it's just a coincidence, but the crashes are happening (almost always) when I'm working with <a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a> account.<br><br>Sincerely,<br>Gour<br><br>