rada and gus wrote:

On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 06:18, Bahram Alinezhad wrote:

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Conexant have drivers for SuSE on their website. The free version of the driver only does 14.4kbps, but you can purchase an upgraded version of the driver for $20 or so.

Here's the link:

http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hsf/full/downloads.php

Look at the end of the attached HTML and check if it has still the last 56k beta versions.

Thanks for all the replies. However, as I said in my previous mail, I am familiar with the linuxant drivers. No there is no beta version available for quite some time on their pages. I specifically asked about the rpm's on the suse 9.1 CD's to see if anyone has been able to get them to work. If my friend has to pay for the drivers it won't break his bank, but if there is a viable alternative, I would prefer to use that. Thanks.

Gustav Degreef

I use - or rather used - the Conexant drivers (both HCF and HSF) and there is no alternative to buying the drivers from Linuxant. cheers. -- Bigamy, n: one wife too many. Monogamy, n: see Bigamy.

On Wednesday 15 December 2004 21:15, rada and gus wrote:

Thanks for all the replies. However, as I said in my previous mail, I am familiar with the linuxant drivers. No there is no beta version available for quite some time on their pages. I specifically asked about the rpm's on the suse 9.1 CD's to see if anyone has been able to get them to work. If my friend has to pay for the drivers it won't break his bank, but if there is a viable alternative, I would prefer to use that. Thanks.

Gustav Degreef

I don't know that you're going to find much of an alternative to the drivers on the Liniuxant site. I tried the drivers which shipped with v9.1 and was not able to get them to work, probably because they weren't designed for the Conexant chipset in use on my buddy's system. That is not really all that surprising. There is a long history of problems with Linux and winmodems (or softmodems, whatever you want to call them). At least the manufacturer is going out of it's way to provide RPM's for the various major Linux distributions. Many wont even make the attempt. Jesse

On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 17:15, Riccardo Facchini wrote:

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On Wednesday 15 December 2004 21:15, rada and gus wrote:

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Thanks for all the replies.

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about the rpm's on the suse 9.1 CD's to see if anyone has been able to get them to work. If my friend has to pay for the drivers it won't break his bank, but if there is a viable alternative, I would prefer to use that. snip

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I tried the drivers which shipped with v9.1 and was not able to get them to work, probably because they weren't designed for the Conexant chipset in use on my buddy's system.

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I own the linuxant license, and apart from some problems when upgrading (better to be sure to have the right rpm for the kernel) and one config problem (fixed using the serial generation option), I'm quite happy with the job linuxant does.

I understand you not being happy of not having a pure GPL option, but linuxant seems to perform. Every time I needed something their help line (via mail) works.

You're right the linuxant drivers work well, and the paid driver works better than the old beta free version. My laptop has a connexant modem and I also purchased the license. The license is not transferable to another computer. Yes linuxant provides drivers for the major distros and they update the drivers frequently for kernel updates. I have no complaints about the company. I was interested in people's experience with the packages included with Suse 9.1 and whether they were viable alternatives - perhaps there was somebody who got them to work. I tried to compile the last free version on Fedora core 1 and got nowhere, I thought that perhaps there might be a quick fix if someone got them to work. Thanks for the replies. Gustav Degreef. Gustav Degreef