Using a USB winmodem with a Conexant driver in (K)Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric)

**Ganton** · March 30th, 2013

Hi!

This is me again. Nowadays I don't use any winmodem, but because some sites removed the original files, I will copy them here.

Notes about the "ubuntuforums.org" site:
- It had limits in the size of the attachments, so I had to use several parts of files.
- It forbade me to add more than five attachments, so I had to use more than one post.
- It didn't allow me to attach the files that I split using the "split" command.

Those are the files only for 32 bits systems:
hsfmodem-7.68.00.09oem.part_1.tar.bz2
hsfmodem-7.68.00.09oem.part_2.tar.bz2
hsfmodem-7.80.02.06full.part_1.tar.bz2
hsfmodem-7.80.02.06full.part_2.tar.bz2

For example, you can move "hsfmodem-7.68.00.09oem.part_1.tar.bz2" and "hsfmodem-7.68.00.09oem.part_2.tar.bz2" to the same directory/folder and uncompress them using

Code:

tar -xvf hsfmodem-7.68.00.09oem.part_1.tar.bz2
tar -xvf hsfmodem-7.68.00.09oem.part_2.tar.bz2

to obtain the original folder.

**Ganton** · March 30th, 2013

Those are the files only for 64 bits systems:
hsfmodem-7.68.00.09x86_64oem.part_1.tar.bz2
hsfmodem-7.68.00.09x86_64oem.part_2.tar.bz2
hsfmodem-7.80.02.06x86_64full.part_1.tar.bz2
hsfmodem-7.80.02.06x86_64full.part_2.tar.bz2

**Ganton** · March 30th, 2013

Those are the files common for all systems:
hsfmodem-7.80.02.05-DiacoEdition.part_1.tar.bz2
hsfmodem-7.80.02.05-DiacoEdition.part_2.tar.bz2
hsfmodem-7.80.02.05-DiacoEdition.part_3.tar.bz2
hsfmodem-7.80.02.05-DiacoEdition.part_4.tar.bz2

**GrayJack** · May 14th, 2013

Anyway the solution doesn't work with the latest kernel for Ubuntu 12.04 - errors during compiling.
So one should forget about Conexant PCI/USB modems

**chayzer** · May 26th, 2013

Originally Posted by GrayJack

Anyway the solution doesn't work with the latest kernel for Ubuntu 12.04 - errors during compiling.
So one should forget about Conexant PCI/USB modems

I can confirm that it looks like theres a lot of issues to compile on 3.5.* kernels. I rolled back to 3.2.* and all seems fine.

**ba0547** · January 25th, 2014

Hello,

are there any news about to compile the driver on recent (3.10) kernels? i am still not able to compile any conexant driver modules on my 3.1x kernels. always get the message that file version.h is missing.

hope anyone has an idea.

best regards, harald.

**george-hopkins** · January 4th, 2015

As downloading all the files is a bit tedious, I uploaded them to GitHub for easier retrieval:
http://george-hopkins.github.io/hsfmodem

**Li_Wu** · September 17th, 2015

https://github.com/george-hopkins/hsfmodem/issues/1

was anyone successful on a 4.x kernel ?

**Sven_Goldt** · October 2nd, 2015

Hi,

to make it easier i just downloaded the hsfmodem-7.80.02.06oem.tar.gz from http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hsf/oem/downloads.php.

Then i extracted the file, fixed all files to match a newer kernel (3.2.0 in my case) and instead of greying your hair i created a patch file to apply to the driver. I put all files in /usr/src which you should do aswell.

Then you can "patch -p0 < hsfmodem.patch" and follow the instructions afterwards which means "make install ; hsfconfig" and your HSF modem should work (/dev/modem it is).

I don't have a 4.x kernel in use so maybe it does not work with 4.x kernels but probably it needs just a few adjustments as it was needed from 2.x to 3.x.