Re: USB Modem Driver for Linux
From: marius (marius_bros_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/01/03
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Date: 1 Oct 2003 02:20:25 -0700
rodsmith@nessus.rodsbooks.com (Rod Smith) wrote in message news:<07lclb-eot.ln@speaker.rodsbooks.com>...
> In article <8bec081d.0309300941.5a602b6f@posting.google.com>,
> marius_bros@yahoo.com (marius) writes:
> >
> > rodsmith@nessus.rodsbooks.com (Rod Smith) wrote in message news:<hd84lb-8ip.ln@speaker.rodsbooks.com>...
> >> Check http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/. I've not tried these drivers, and
> >> I don't even have your model modem. It looks like they require either
> >> replacing or patching and recompiling your kernel. Also, it looks like the
> >> free version supports only up to 14.4Kbps speeds; to get full speed, you
> >> need to pay $15 for an uncrippled version.
> >
> > Thanks... I've gone to that site. Unfortunately, they don't have any
> > drivers for the Conexant "HCF USB" modem, only for "HCF PCI" modems.
>
> As I said, I've not tried these drivers; however, some of the
> documentation does explicitly mention USB devices. For instance, from
> http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hcf/index.php?PHPSESSID=2e4e08fa1c1cabd8aca857a62e5b6b04:
>
> : The following USB modem devices are recognized by the hcfusbmodem driver:
> :
> : * USB Vendor ID: 0572 Product ID: 1290 (Cadmus2 HCF, Conexant)
> : * USB Vendor ID: 05AC Product ID: 8202 (Cadmus2 HCF, Apple)
>
> Of course, it's possible that this support is so flaky it's useless, or
> the documentation is getting ahead of the driver development, or that the
> drivers won't recognize your particular modem. Unless you've actually
> downloaded the files and tried it, though, I wouldn't give up just
> yet.
Yes, I've actually downloaded and tried installing two drivers from
that site. Both didn't work.
Here's one posted on their FAQ page about HCF USB Modem:
http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hcf/faq.php?PHPSESSID=2e4e08fa1c1cabd8aca857a62e5b6b04%3A#25
Q: I have a USB HCF modem. Why don't you provide an x86 version of the
hcfusbmodem package?
Unfortunately the hcfusbmodem driver only supports the Cadmus2 chipset
internally used by Apple in later generation PowerPC desktop and
notebook machines. Most if not all external USB HCF modems on the
market use an earlier chipset (Cadmus1), which requires too many
workarounds and excessive polling by the CPU to be well supported
under Linux.
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