Problem with Conexant Modem on Karmic

[Paul S]

there is indeed a pulseaudio bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...io/+bug/394500

A temporary fix to our problem is to edit /etc/pulse/default.pa and change this:

### Automatically load driver modules depending on the hardware available
.ifexists module-udev-detect.so
load-module module-udev-detect
.else
### Alternatively use the static hardware detection module (for systems that
### lack udev support)
load-module module-detect
.endif

to this:

### Automatically load driver modules depending on the hardware available
#.ifexists module-udev-detect.so
#load-module module-udev-detect
#.else
### Alternatively use the static hardware detection module (for systems that
### lack udev support)
load-module module-detect
#.endif

than reboot. One problem remains is that sound preferences still does not show card listing.

hth

[maratonman]

I have same problem,and I did what you wrote,and now it can`t initialize sound device.
I`m running 32bit karmic koala.

[maratonman]

does anybody knows what is the problem?

[amp3030]

there is indeed a pulseaudio bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...io/+bug/394500

A temporary fix to our problem is to edit /etc/pulse/default.pa and change this:

Thanks a lot! This worked for me just as you said. But now I have to 'sudo gnome-ppp' (run it as root) to connect. Someone suggested to add my username to 'dip' (via Users and Groups) but it didn't work either.

[habib_seif]

Someone suggested to add my username to 'dip' (via Users and Groups) but it didn't work either.

I have the same problem...

[kaos_frack]

Edited: some users have sound problems after installing this driver. Go to this post for a solution.

This driver will enable Conexant modems installed on Vaio, DELL & ... laptops in ubuntu karmic (and other linux distributions with kernel version later than 2.6.30).

1. Preparation
Note: If you first install the limited 14kbps driver from linuxant.com using their automatic installer, then you can skip preparation section and jump to step 2

Note: Ubuntu Karmic (9.10) 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.

Installing Generic alsa-driver-linux package with source:

Note: Before installing this package, make sure that you have the build-essential installed (for gcc and make are required). Additionally, the kernel headers are also needed, this is the linux-headers package.

wget http://www.linuxant.com/alsa-driver/....3_all.deb.zip
unzip *.zip
dpkg -i alsa-driver-linuxant_1.0.20.3_all.deb

2. Download this file:
http://www.bargweb.net/images/2009/november/hsfmodem-7.80.02.05-DiacoEdition.zip
3. Extract the archive to a folder, open a terminal window there and install it: "sudo make install"
4. Run command "hsfconfig" in terminal. Do not answer questions. Just type "enter" key and accept the default answers.
5. Finished! Your modem is ready at /dev/ttySHSF0. Full speed (56K). You can use gnome-ppp or kppp (as root) for dialup.
Please let me now if you had a successfull installation or if you encounter any problem.
This modem dirver includes files from DELL's oem driver and the limited (14K) Driver available at linuxant.com. and the preparation section is taken from: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Di...Howto/Conexant

THANK YOU!
it worked! sound is also working!

[Paul S]

THANK YOU!
it worked! sound is also working!

But, although it works sometimes, it still fails sometimes. I missed most of a flash broadcast because it just stopped working. I have the hda intel sound, so maybe it's still problematic.

Anyway, I took the more drastic step of removing pulseaudio altogether, following this thread http://ubuntu-ky.ubuntuforums.org/sh...73&postcount=4

After it's removed, the mixer is broken. So there's a great solution in this thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...7&postcount=25 , especially the post about alsa_volume.tar.bz2.

Then to fix aptitude dependencies, I installed equivs and created and installed an equivs-deb from this equivs control file:

Section: misc
Priority: optional
Standards-Version: 3.6.2
Package: equivs-pulseaudio
Provides: gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio, pulseaudio, pulseaudio-esound-compat
Description: fix pulseaudio dependencies after removing it


hth

[Paul S]

does anybody knows what is the problem?

You may want to remove pulseaudio altogether, as explained in my last post.

hth

[habib_seif]

But now I have to 'sudo gnome-ppp' (run it as root) to connect. Someone suggested to add my username to 'dip' (via Users and Groups) but it didn't work either.

It also was solved for me....
After adding my current user to dip group, I had to dial by root once. After that, I can connect by normal user, too

Cheers,
Habib

[mikilion]

there is indeed a pulseaudio bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...io/+bug/394500

A temporary fix to our problem is to edit /etc/pulse/default.pa and change this...

I confirm, the sound works also for me.