[hsflinux] System freezes when browsing soon after dialout

Luke Sharkey lukesharkey at hotmail.co.uk
Sat Aug 4 16:59:24 EDT 2007


Hi

Thanks for your reply.  However, I was just wondering what you meant when 
you said:

"It is possible that it is a modulation specific stability issue in the HSF 
driver and simply installing a valid license might cure the problem as 
another modulation is likely to be used."

...could you please explain what you mean by a "modulation specific 
stability issue"?  How exactly installing a valid licence help this?

I have been considering upgrading to the full 56k driver, but I need to know 
that it will work first before I do and that I won't continue to get these 
crashes.  I know the driver is binary, but would it be possible to run any 
sort of debug mode to get more information on the problem, etc?  And if it 
is a bug in the driver, is it likely to be fixed in any future updates (have 
you come across any reports of problems like this before?)

Thank you,
Luke Sharkey



>From: "Linuxant support (Jonathan)" <support at linuxant.com>
>To: "Neil B. Ablang" <neil.ablang at eglobalreach.net>
>CC: Luke Sharkey <lukesharkey at hotmail.co.uk>,hsflinux at lists.linuxant.com
>Subject: Re: [hsflinux] System freezes when browsing soon after dialout
>Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:37:41 -0400
>
>Hi,
>
>with the description of the problem, I doubt that it is an application 
>problem, it's likely a problem with either the kernel or a driver.
>
>It is possible that it is a modulation specific stability issue in the HSF 
>driver and simply installing a valid license might cure the problem as 
>another modulation is likely to be used.
>
>Regards,
>
>
>Jonathan
>Technical specialist / Linuxant
>www.linuxant.com
>support at linuxant.com
>
>
>
>Neil B. Ablang wrote:
>>Hi!
>>
>>Looks like an application problem not the modem.  After modem connection, 
>>trying doing a ping to whatevever site you like, say ping www.google.com 
>>from your terminal. If it respond without any error say for a minute or 2 
>>then, most probably your browser have some problems
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Neil
>>Luke Sharkey wrote:
>>>Hi
>>>
>>>I've been trying out the free 14.4kbs hsf driver for my connexant based 
>>>modem on (K)ubuntu 7.04 amd64.  It dials out without problems and I can 
>>>access the internet fine.  However, soon after I start browsing, my 
>>>computer totally freezes (not just Xwindows - even pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1 
>>>/etc.  does nothing).  I've noticed that it is worse with firefox, which 
>>>seems to crash even after a few seconds browsing, but on konqueror 
>>>sometimes it can be a few minutes.  Nonetheless, it always crashes when I 
>>>try to log into hotmail.
>>>
>>>The output in /var/log/messages for the crash is always mysterious and 
>>>very ugly, e.g.:
>>>
>>>&#65533;a`UV&#65533;@{5&#65533;"&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;"K.JL&#65533;&#65533;:&#65533;&#65533;.wW&#65533;&#65533; 
>>>&#65533;\&#65533;I=&#65533;1<'w&#65533;5&#65533;x&#65533;&#65533;SH&#65533;4Z4&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;t&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#788;&#63627;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;'&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;#&#65533;6k&#65533;&#65533;,&#65533;&#65533;-&#65533;e&#65533;&#65533;[&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;A&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;{&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;aYn*&#65533;:&#65533;&#65533;!B&#926;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;t&#65533;XoOi&#65533;1&#65533;&#65533;/gw%yG$?c&#65533;&#1241;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;B"
>>>
>>>&#65533;7    
>>>9&#65533;7~K&#65533;&#1234;&#65533;W&#65533;&#65533;$PB&#65533;N 
>>>w&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;C-&#65533;p(y&#65533;l&#65533;;xP|&#65533;.&#65533;AV&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;
>>>
>>>
>>>I've attached hsfconfig --dumpdiag .  What could be the problem?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>LS
>>>
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