Re: What type of CPU required for hsfmodem?
"Linuxant support (Jonathan)" <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:03:25 -0400
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.drivers.modem.hsf |
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Hi, AMD x86 and x86_64 CPUs in typical machines should work fine with the HSF driver. The HSF driver requires that the CPU has the MMX technology and most x86 nowadays processors should have it. You can use the following command in a root shell: --- cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep flags --- to see if MMX is supported or not by the processor. The HSF driver is also known to work fine on 2.6.20.x kernels. Can you provide the complete kernel oops you obtained? Since the kernel oops when the driver is inserted into the kernel, you should check and make sure that your kernel was compiled without the CONFIG_4KSTACKS option enabled. Finally, if you are not running an officially supported Linux distribution and kernel, you could try one to see if there is a difference. We provide pre-compiled packages for most Linux distributions which are officially supported. Regards, Jonathan Technical specialist / Linuxant www.linuxant.com [email protected] Heather Lockridge wrote: > Will the driver code in hsfmodem-7.60.00.09full.tar.gz support an AOpen FM56-SVV PCI modem with the Conexant chipset on an AMD Elan processor running a 2.6.20.4 or later linux kernel? > > I have a sinking feeling it won't as after building on that platform and rebooting I get an invalid opcode on boot and stack call trace and a "hung" system. > > Here's the start of the "bad" news (copied from the console): > > invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] > Modules linked in: hsfpcibasic2 hsfserial hsfengine(P) hsfosspec hsfsoar > > Thanks and regards, > > Heather > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________Ready for the edge of your seat? > Check out tonight's top picks on Yahoo! TV. > http://tv.yahoo.com/ > _______________________________________________ > hsflinux mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.linuxant.com/mailman/listinfo/hsflinux