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Vaevictis
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 Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 3:06 pm Post subject: Conexant winmodem hoses gnome? |
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So, here's the whole sordid tale...
Setting up a gentoo box on my mom's Dell after a hard drive failure. It's working fine for me hooked up behind my router and all. Gnome running 1024x768 without having done an Xorg -configure. It's all good.
Then I bring it home. Gnome refuses to boot into anything other than 640x480, which I think I can trace to the (old) monitor not giving up its own info readily enough. Other than that, all the *software* seems to work fine. Everything but the modem.
According to ScanModem, it's a Conexant HCF 56k Data/Fax Modem, numbers 14f1:1033. Eventually investigating linuxant.com, I discover that I need their HCF (Controllerless) driver. I find one in portage and merrily go about emerging hcfpcimodem. This before I brought it back to mom's.
Unfortunately, the version in portage is for 2.4 kernels only, so I download the 2.6 kernel version (14.4k limit and all) from Linuxant at my place, burn, and bring to mom's.
I follow Linuxant's instructions (even remembering to emerge --unmerge hcfpcimodem first) and run through hcfpciconfig, which compiles itself against my 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 headers, and successfully is pointed at /dev/ttySHCF0. It does say (now that I've tried to recompile it a few times, "WARNING: /etc/runlevels not yet supported"
I then reboot.
This is where the problem starts... My boot logs hang at the PCI hotplug section for a bit, before spewing errors previously unseen. It ends up looking something like this:
| Code: | INIT: Entering runlevel: 3
* Starting metalog...
* Starting input hotplugging...
* Starting pci hotplugging...
... can't load module hcfpcihw
missing kernel or user mode driver hcfpcihw
* Start usb hotplug
* Start cups
* Set DNS
* Error: Problem starting needed services
* "portmap" was not started
* Starting famd
* Error: Problem starting needed services
* "netmount" was not started
* Error: Problem starting needed services
* "sshd" was not started |
The real problem is that now when gnome boots up (with autologin to help make it as easy as possible for mom) the gnome Panel never really gets around to loading (so no clock or anything), the desktop feels really unresponsive, and I can't get at the Applications or Actions menus. After about 3 minutes, it logs itself out (and at 640x480 the login screen is just a tad cramped).
Back to the monitor talk, I did eventually do the Xorg -configure bit in the middle of all of this, and came up with a stock Xorg.conf file, but as yet wasn't able to get into a login prompt as root to remove it for testing before I got fed up. (The unresponsiveness in X is matched with no password prompt when I try to log in from the console, sigh.)
So, what I'm wondering is, is there anyone out there that's managed to fight with their winmodem and win? And does anyone know what I've done to my mom's poor, poor Dell box and how to rectify it without taking another few days of total deprivation to reinstall Xorg etc. here at my place? |
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Vaevictis
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| Nobody? If I can't get this working I'm gonna need to go with a Win XP reinstall, and I'm trying to avoid that (and the updates, and securing, and blah blah blah.....) |
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