[hcflinux] HCF modem difficulties (Jon Wyatt)

John Spray jcs116 at york.ac.uk
Wed Nov 20 10:37:07 EST 2002


Hi Jon,

Even a regular install on a 2.4.19 kernel using the generic tars (or
rpms for that matter) requires a compiler.  The only way you get away
with no compilation whatsoever is if you can get a binary for your
specific kernel with your specific options (some room for variance, but
sacrificing stability).  So you'd need someone to make you specific
binaries - something you might as well do yourself.  Naturally not all
distros can be supported with precompiled binaries - only mandrake,
suse, and redhat have complete binaries available.

You'll either have to install gcc and the kernel source on the box in
question, or compile on a different box.

The hcflinux driver is NOT supported under 2.2.x kernels - so if it
doesn't work you're unlikely to see much help from the developers.

--John Spray (jcs116 at york.ac.uk)

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Message: 1
From: "Jon Wyatt" <jon at samur1.freeserve.co.uk>
To: <hcflinux-announce at lists.mbsi.ca>
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 23:09:52 -0000
Subject: [hcflinux] HCF modem difficulties

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I have a diamond PCI HCF modem. I can get it working fine in my main =
Linux PC, which is kernel 2.4.2-2, i686. Great. This was using the =
appropriate download from mbsi.

I have bought a cheap compaq PC to use as a firewall and have loaded =
smoothwall onto it but it doesn;t like this modem. I can get smoothwall
= to dial out using an external modem but not this PCI one. The problem
is now that although I can download the rpm file from mbsi I = can;t
install it on my firewall because it doesn;t have rpm on it, or in =
fact a compiler so creating from source isn't possible.

Smoothwall is 2.2.20 i586.

Is there anywhere I can get hold of the binaries for this driver online
= in a tar format? I suppose I could get the appropriate rpm from the =
site, install it on my linux PC and then copy all the files across but =
I'd prefer to be able to get an installable package.

Thanks,

jon.


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