[hsflinux] my modem played "pick-a-boo" too

[Linuxant support]

Hi,

you might want to verify if "depmod -A" (simlar to 'depmod -a' except that it 
verifies the timestamp on the files before recreating de dependencies) is 
found in one of the boot scripts. There might be a reason why it is not being 
executed properly.

In any case, your "depmod -a" solution should be fine.

As for the modules not loading, this is normal. The errors are the result of 
probing for hardware that is not present in your system.

Regards,

-- 
Jean-Simon Durand
Technical specialist / Linuxant
www.linuxant.com
support at linuxant.com


On Sunday 09 November 2003 13:38, Diego Matessi wrote:
> Hello
> I have a Conexant D480 MDC V.92 modem,
> Vendor ID 8086, device ID: 2486
> on an Del Inspiron 4150. I use Red Hat 8.0 with
> kernel 2.4.18-14, i686.
>
> I downloaded the free rpm package
> hsfmodem-6.03.00lnxt03091800free_k2.4.18_14-1rh.i686.
>
> Installation went smooth and the modem worked....
> but just once! As I shut down the system and restarted
> the modem wouldn't work anymore.
>
> I know someone else in the list had the same problem.
> It helped to read those emails.
>
> I now solved the problem, but before I buy the full package
> I want to make sure I'm doing things right, I'm
> new to LInux.
>
> I figured that, on rebooting, my system was not rewriting the
> file modules.dep (from which the network device learns which
> modules to load first). This file can be written with the
> comand depmod -a.
>
> So I added the line /sbin/depmod -a to the rc-file /etc/rc.d/rc.local,
> and now the modem works all the time.
>
> Did I do it right or is there a better way?
>
> But I noticed that not all the hsf modules that come with the
> package load. Is that normal? Am I loosing on some features
> by not having all of them loaded (the ones it DOES NOT load
> are hsfmc97ali.o, hsfmc97via.o and hsfpcibasic2.o)?
>
> thank you,
>
> Diego