Comments on: Call for enabling HP Pavilion internal softmodem

By: aldeby

aldeby — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:17:37 +0000

Thank you for reporting Mahmood!
Unfortunately I have no experience with Conexant modems haven’t had the chance to own any so far. I was just wondering if you had loaded the drivers into the current kernel with modprobe (or simply rebooted). Hardware drivers are not loaded automatically “as soon as being installed”.
Also you could have a look at lshw -vv output and find your modem codes. Googling for it may give you an idea of other people’s experience with that particular model.

By: Mahmood

Mahmood — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:39:16 +0000

My HP Pavilion dv2575ee has conexant chipset. According to modemdata.txt, I downloaded alsa-driver-linuxant and run it. As soon as installing the deb packages, the sound daemon killed and the hsfconfig can not find the driver. I have contacted the linuxant technical support (by sending the dump file) and he has said that I am the first person to report such a crash (maybe in the kernel). He has no idea at this moment and I think since my system is from HP, maybe they put something proprietary in the driver code and since is it not open source, it is difficult to track the dump file.

By: aldeby

aldeby — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:25:47 +0000

Thanks 67GTA for your feedback!
Unfortunately my modem is not a Conexant one, but is made by Motorola.
Thus it shouldn’t be supported by the open source Dell drivers.

By: 67GTA

67GTA — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:33:52 +0000

I have a HP dv6815nr with a Conexant softmodem. The drivers from Linuxant work, but always kill the laptop sound when enabled. Dell has started releasing the full Conexant dial-up drivers for their Ubuntu systems for free if anyone doesn’t want to buy the Linuxant driver. You can download them in .deb format from the Dell website. I don’t use the dial-up, so no big deal:-).