[hsflinux] modprobe of hsf modules brings system to its knees

[Linuxant support (Jonathan)]

Hi,

we are aware of issues with newer 'module-init-tools' packages and the 
modem drivers and we are currently investigating on this problem. In the 
meantime, please try to downgrade your 'module-init-tools' package to 
one of these versions :

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3.0pre9
3.0pre10
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For the IRQ problem, please send us the output of 'dumpdiag'. Type the 
following in a root shell:

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hsfconfig --dumpdiag
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This command will generate the dump and you should generate this dump 
after the modem driver is no longer working.

Just send us the generated file located in /tmp ('hsfdiag.txt').
It'll help us solve the problem.

Regards,


Jonathan
Technical specialist / Linuxant
www.linuxant.com
support at linuxant.com


Josh Green wrote:
> I sent this originally when I was not yet subscribed to the hsflinux
> list (but thought I was, due to the long delay for receiving the
> subscription confirmation), it therefore needed moderator approval. I
> decided to resend and add some additional information. Please disregard
> first message if it ends up being approved, thanks.
> 
> ----------------
> 
> I have a Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop with an HSF Conexant modem:
> 
> Output of applicable portion of 'lspci -v':
> 
> 0000:00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M)
> AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Generic])
>         Subsystem: Conexant: Unknown device 5422
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 7
>         I/O ports at b400
>         I/O ports at b080 [size=128]
>         Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
> 
> I'm using latest Gentoo with kernel 2.6.7-gentoo-r11, latest Linuxant
> driver hsfmodem-6.03.00lnxt04072900full.tar.gz with a paid license. 
> 
> After performing hsfconfig, the hsf modules are loaded and everything
> works fine (can connect to Internet, etc). If I reboot the computer and
> log in to my gnome session the system rapidly becomes unusable as severe
> hard disk thrashing occurs. Starting a top session in a text virtual
> terminal before logging into gnome (good luck trying to run top after
> system starts to go down hill, system is too slow by that point!) shows
> that modprobe is consuming 100% CPU. Eventually (within 10 to 20
> seconds) I am forced to use Sys-Request keys to sync/remount/reboot
> machine. System is to the point of virtually non-responsiveness (hard
> drive going nuts). I verified that it was the hsf modules by moving the
> misc/ directory (containing only hsf modules) out of the kernel modules
> directory, and then moved it back in after logging into gnome and
> running wvdial (which caused the same problem to occur again).
> 
> UPDATE (from first posted email):
> 
> I did some additional tests by manually modprobing modules. I began with
> "modprobe hsfengine" which worked fine. I then did a "modprobe
> hsfmc97ich" which never returned from the modprobe command and system
> went down hill from there. Hitting CTRL-C at the terminal printed out a
> message that said something to the effect of "Could not load
> hsfpcibasic2 due to unresolved symbols" although that wasn't the exact
> phrase, since I have no easy way of copy/pasting it, but modprobe
> command still did not end. Deleting the misc directory and re-running
> hsfconfig will cause things to work fine again, until reboot.
> 
> Another problem I saw was that after a few hours of system up time after
> hanging up the modem, the kernel disabled IRQ 7, due to a spurious
> interrupt. Unfortunately this made it so the modem would no longer
> respond at all, and broke my sound card too which is using the same IRQ.
> 
> Has anyone else experienced these problems? This modem has been a
> nightmare to begin with (although its fine when I can get it to work), I
> wish it was working better with 2.6 kernels. Best regards,
> 	Josh Green
> 
> 
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