[hsflinux] Re: AC97 modem in my Thinkpad and Connex driver

[Marc Boucher]

Sorry, we only support Conexant, not Lucent modems.

Marc

On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 04:20:28PM +0200, Werner Becker wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
>   I installed the recent  soft modem driver 
> 
>      hsflinmodem-5.03.03.L2mbsibeta02060200k2.4.18_4-1rh.i686.rpm
> 
>  which I found on the Conexant modem driver website. I was hoping that the 
> driver should work and the installation process went without any error. a 
> check with lsmod also indicated  that hsf*.o files were loaded. I use RedHat 
> 7.3 and Kernel 2.4.18-4 on a i686 (Thinkpad T23) which on Windows tells me 
> that it has a Lucent AMR softmodem. Indeed the modem is a Intel daughter card 
> and based on the AC97 codec. I include the relevant output form lspci -v -v 
> below.
> 
> However, using neat (the RedHat network configuration tool) it tells me that 
> it does not find the modem and indeed the hsf*.o modules are not loaded after 
> a reboot. Inspecting the /var/meassage file I find the entry 
> 
> 
> Jun 14 15:25:34 weblab kernel: ERROR: did not find a supported AC97 codec ! 
> (0x5349:0x4c27)<3>
> Jun 14 15:25:34 weblab kernel: hsf_request_port: ComCtrlOpen failed, r=1!
> 
> 
> Does anyone know whether I can use the Conexan modem driver to get that modem 
> working or if it might hopeless.
> 
> 
> Thanks for any hint!
> 
> 
> Werner Becker
> 
>  
> ------------------------------------------
> 
> - log of lspci -v -v
> 
> 
>  00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio (rev 
> 01)
>         Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 0222
>         Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- 
> Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>         Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>         Latency: 0
>         Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 11
>         Region 0: I/O ports at 1c00 [size=256]
>         Region 1: I/O ports at 18c0 [size=64]
> 
> 00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem (rev 01) (prog-if 00 
> [Generic])
>         Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 0227
>         Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- 
> Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>         Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>         Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 11
>         Region 0: I/O ports at 2400 [size=256]
>         Region 1: I/O ports at 2000 [size=128]
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