Red Hat 7.0 Drivers

I recently installed Red Hat on my laptop, a Dell. Unfortunately, it came with a WinModem, (Conexant Softmodem.)

So I went to linmodems.org and downloaded the driver, installed it without a problem (on root) logs work fine. /dev/modem points to the right file and everything.

I log out, reboot and such just in case, and it won't work. All of the dialers are telling me that the modem is either busy, or it can't initialize.

Does anyone have any ideas here? It should be working now, the chipset, kernel version, and everything is set up right, I've triple checked. I also tried uninstalling and re-installing the drivers and such to make sure...it made no difference.

I'm running Red Hat 7.0 (I plan to upgrade ASAP), kernel version 2.2.16.22, i686 (Celeron).

Is it completely hopeless? Will a newer version of Red Hat (or some other distro) let this work better? Should I just spring for the external modem? Any advice here would be much appreciated. Thanks!

There is a chance a newer disro will find it better, one thing about Linux, it started out fairly hard to install but was stable as hell, now its getting easier and easier to install, without affecting reliability, so basically a newer version will have bug fixes and prolly better support, also, id reccommend SuSe Linux 8.1 professional, its got SO much stuff:
http://www.suse.de/en/private/produc...dex_group.html

go check out that link, thats most of the stuff SuSe Linux 8.1 professional comes with:)

Hi,
1. If you still wanna use your RH 7 and your conexant modem, you need to upgrade your kernel from kernel 2.2 to kernel 2.4 to make it work.

Quote:

HSF for Linux drivers were developed by Conexant Systems Inc.
in cooperation with Marc Boucher .

They should work on most current Linux distributions, based on
the 2.4.x kernels. A Pentium processor with the MMX enhancements
is required. Some systems may require kernel recompilation with
special ACPI patches. Preemptible kernels are not yet supported.

Some people are successfully using the drivers under 2.2 and 2.5 kernels
but they are not officially supported. We strongly recommend that 2.2
users upgrade to 2.4 before reporting bugs.

The following PCI modem devices are recognized by the driver:

HSFi
PCI ID 14F1:2F00, Subsystem ID 2002:14F1
PCI ID 14F1:2F00, Subsystem ID 2003:14F1
PCI ID 14F1:2F00, Subsystem ID 2004:14F1
PCI ID 14F1:2F01

HSF
PCI ID 14F1:2013
PCI ID 14F1:2014
PCI ID 14F1:2015
PCI ID 14F1:2016
PCI ID 14F1:2F10
PCI ID 14F1:2F11
PCI ID 14F1:2F12
PCI ID 14F1:2F13
PCI ID 14F1:2F14
PCI ID 14F1:4311 (RIPTIDE - sound not supported)
PCI ID 127A:1025 (Some units are HCF however)
PCI ID 127A:2004
PCI ID 127A:2005 (Some units are HCF however)
PCI ID 127A:2013
PCI ID 127A:2014
PCI ID 127A:2015
PCI ID 127A:2016
PCI ID 127A:4311 (RIPTIDE - sound not supported)
PCI ID 127A:2114

Intel MC97 Controller (ICH)

PCI ID 8086:2416
PCI ID 8086:2446
PCI ID 8086:2486

Those PCI IDs represent the Intel MC97 controller, to which various
AC-Link modems can be connected. However, only those based on Conexant
chips are supported.

VIA MC97 Controller

PCI ID 1106:3068

This PCI ID represents the VIA MC97 controller, to which various
AC-Link modems can be connected. However, only those based on Conexant
chips are supported.

ALI MC97 Controller

PCI ID 10B9:5453
PCI ID 10B9:5457

Those PCI IDs represent the ALI and ALI+ MC97 controllers, to which
various AC-Link modems can be connected. However, only those based on
Conexant chips are supported.

The internal modem of HP omnibook xe4500 series machines should work
with this driver.

Basic2 / SmartDAA

PCI ID 14F1:2043
PCI ID 14F1:2044
PCI ID 14F1:2045
PCI ID 14F1:2046
PCI ID 14F1:2443

Athens (Yukon)

PCI ID 14F1:1631
PCI ID 14F1:1636
PCI ID 14F1:163

2. Or if you wanna the easy one..get latest version of RH so you can get new kernel

I hope this helps

Cheerss