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Re: RH 7.2 - modem recognised, but unuseable

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From: Damien Covey
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 05:37
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I also had a HCF chipset, and as far as I can tell there is no driver 
for them.  There is a driver for the HSF chipset though.  Sorry.

Drew@transtemporal.com wrote:

> Hi,
> I have been using RedHat since the 5.2 release. Previously I have been 
> unable to use my modem;
> Mistubishi-Electric
> Diamond Voice 56VE/VP
> HCF/Rockwell chip;
> with Linux (Every time I've upgraded my Linux system I have spent many 
> hours searching for winmodem drivers for my modem). I had decided to give
> up and just get a new modem.
> 
> You can imagine my excitement however when during the installation of RH 
> 7.2 today my modem was recognised!! However upon trying to use it (RH PPP 
> 
> Dialer, minicom, etc) I couldn't get it going. I shutdown and pulled the 
> modem out and restarted and during startup Linux recognised that it had 
> been removed (message below):
> 	The following modem has been removed from your system.
> 	Rockwell International:unknown device 127a:1024
> I restarted again (with the modem replaced) and Linux recognised
> it had been added (message below):
> 	The following modem has been added to your system.
> 	Rockwell International:unknown device 127a:1024
> However I still could not use it.
> 
> I am wondering if anyone else has experienced this issue and was
> able to resolve it (either got the modem working or found a reason
> why the modem wouldn't work). I am speculating that the "unknown device"
> part of the above messages means that though the system recognises the 
> chipset and that the device is a modem it knows of no driver for it (this 
> 
> would correlate with yet another search I did today). I am fully aware of 
> 
> the issues of controllerless modems with Linux and until today never 
> expected this modem to work with the OS.
> 
> Any information about this would be greatly appreciated. Even if it the 
> final outcome means that the modem won't work with Linux.
> 
> Thanks,
> Drew
> 
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