[ltp] Z60m internal Conexant HSF Modem

[Nate Bargmann]

* duncangareth@yahoo.co.uk <duncangareth@yahoo.co.uk> [2006 Feb 05 09:38 -0600]:
> Greetings
> 
> I have been having problems getting the Conexant HSF internal modem in my Z60m 
> to work under Mandriva 2006.0. I have installed the relevant hsfmodem kernel 
> modules and the utilities, but whenever I try to access the modem via kppp's 
> "query modem" function, I get the message "modem busy". I suspect that this 
> is a bogus message, because it occurs whether I use /dev/ttySHSF[0123] 
> or /dev/ttyS[0123] or /dev/modem.
> 
> Does anyone have any experience of getting these lame winmodem devices to 
> work? I should like to dispense with my trusty PCMCIA Xircom Ethernet/Modem 
> combo card, because whenever I plug it in, I lose the Thinkpad's internal 
> ethernet interface for some reason. Ultimately I should like to use the modem 
> and the ethernet interface that come with the machine.

I had to set kppp to use Soft IRQ (XON/XOFF) for it to work on my T42
and kernel 2.6.14.  I documented this on the hsfmodem mailing list, but
so far haven't received confirmation that they've figured out a fix.

Since doing the above the modem has been reliable with no apparent
sacrifice of speed.

- Nate >>

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