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Modems supported by the Conexant drivers

Note: Conexant does not provide drivers for Linux, but commercial Linux drivers are available from Linuxant, a separate company. Licenses cost 19.99 US dollars. (But note that full-featured versions of the drivers are also freely available from Dell.) That comes with at least one year support and kernel-version upgrades, after which you need to purchase it again if you are running a different kernel which needs a newer version of the driver (although if you have the kernel headers installed it may be able to rebuild itself for your kernel, depending on what changes have been made in the driver - just try installing the deb and see). Without the license, the drivers are limited to a maximum speed of 14.4Kbps (this restriction does not apply to the drivers supplied by Dell). However, some Conexant modems can be run with the sl-modem-drivers (smart link) or an open source driver. Note that in general, you can buy a Lucent or Intel (smartlink, or other brand with intel chipset) modem for less than 19.99 US.

Conexant drivers provided by Dell (full-speed and free)

Building latest hsfmodem driver + free & full-speed Dell binaries

- jasmineaura 19/7/2009

Preparation

Note: For modems hosted on High Definition Audio (HDA) cards, there is dependence upon the snd-hda-intel ALSA driver already on your System. If you upgrade ALSA beyond the version supported in the Linuxant-based driver code (including the oem distributed by Dell), the hsfmodem drivers will fail and your sound will most likely break.

Note: Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04), Hardy (8.04) and SUSE (11.0, 11.1) users with HDA modems: Installing the latest alsa-driver-linuxant package is necessary before installing this driver.

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

Step 4

Step 5

For Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic users

Note: Using this driver may cause sound problems for (karmic) users. Read this post to fix it: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8258559&postcount=21

After "Preparation" section download this zip archive, extract it & directly go to step 5.

Troubleshooting - string.h error

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