Hi,
as Marvin suggested, to make your system bootable again, you can use a
Rescue CD or Live CD and mount your hard drive partition, use chroot to
make your hard drive partition the new root (/) partition and then use
'hsfconfig --uninstall'. If you installed a DEB package of the driver,
instead, you can use 'dpkg -r hsfmodem', adding the full version
information in the previous command is not necessary.
Alternatively, you could boot in single user mode. Simply add 'single'
and the end of the kernel command line. You can do so while in the boot
loader (GRUB). When the system will be booted, you will be in a root
shell and you should use:
---
hsfconfig --uninstall
exit
---
to remove the HSF driver and hopefully prevent the crash and complete
the boot process of your machine. This method might not work all in all
cases, if the crash happens very early in the boot process, using the
Rescue/Live CD method above will be necessary.
It is normal to see the volume applet to quit unexpectedly if you have a
HDA sound device since all applications using the sound will be
terminated to be able to load the replacement HDA bus driver. This can
happen while installing and uninstalling the HSF and
alsa-driver-linuxant drivers.
In Ubuntu 8.10, it's not necessary to install alsa-driver-linuxant for
HDA modems unlike Ubuntu 8.04, however, since you have a problem,
installing alsa-driver-linuxant available at:
http://www.linuxant.com/alsa-driver
might solve it.
If it still doesn't work with alsa-driver-linuxant installed, please
send to support@xxxxxxxxxxxx the output of 'dumpdiag'? Type the
following in a shell:
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sudo hsfconfig --dumpdiag
---
Just send us the generated file located in /tmp ('hsfdiag.txt').
It'll help us solve the problem.
Regards,
Jonathan
Technical specialist / Linuxant
www.linuxant.com
support@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Marvin Stodolsky wrote:
For
Codec: Conexant ID 2c06, with chipset 14f12c06, the hsfmodem package
is correct if it can be made to work.
Jonathan will have to provide guidance.
I won't be on Linux for another week, but the type of procedure
needing to do the uninstall is as follows:
Do the Rescue CD boot.
$ sudo su root
Mount the Ubuntu partition of the hard disk on (say) /media/
Do
$ chroot --help
for some guidance on "faking" a new / point. The command to do the
uninstall is something like:
# chroot /media hsfconfig --uninstall
# chroot /media dpkg -r hsfmodem_7.68.00.14full_k2.6.27_7_generic
or perhaps
# chroot /media dpkg -r hsfmodem_7.68.00.14full_k2.6.27_7_generic_ubuntu
MarvS
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 2:33 PM, acanonaco@xxxxxxxxx <acanonaco@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The attached ModemData.txt is rather obscure to me, but I thought (perhaps wrongly) I had to install hsfmodem. However, after downloading and unzipping
hsfmodem_7.68.00.14full_k2.6.27_7_generic_ubuntu_i386.deb.zip
the command sudo dpkg -i hsf*.deb produces
...
Pre-built driver modules that seem compatible with your system were found under
/usr/lib/hsfmodem/modules/binaries/linux-2.6.27-7-generic-SMP.
WARNING: Using older built-in HDA driver; some audio/modem issues may occur.
If this is the case, please try the latest alsa-driver-linuxant package
available from http://www.linuxant.com/alsa-driver
Warning: Module snd_hda_intel is in use
Sending TERM signal to processes still using the driver:
PID USER COMMAND
18177 alberto /usr/bin/pulseaudio -D --log-target=syslog
19664 alberto /usr/lib/gnome-applets/mixer_applet2 --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_MixerApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=28
Warning: no device detected by hsf driver - HDA modems may require reboot
Note: kernel module snd-via82xx-modem overridden by hsfmc97via
Note: kernel module snd-intel8x0m overridden by hsfmc97ich hsfmc97sis
Note: kernel module snd-atiixp-modem overridden by hsfmc97ati
In the meantime, "Volume Control" quit unexpectedly. I don't know if all this is normal, but the main problem is that the pc (Sony Vaio VGN-NS11M, by the way) hangs during reboot with
...
* Loading kernel modules...
* Loading manual drivers...
and I can't find a way to make it restart. In fact, even rebooting in recovery mode and switching to a root shell, the command hsfconfig --uninstall (which works if done before rebooting the first time) produces
...
ERROR: Uninstallation failed :
dpkg: unable to access dpkg status area: Read-only file system
So I couldn't find a better solution than reinstalling ubuntu 8.10.
I tried all this more than once, with some variants (e.g., installing also alsa-driver-linuxant), but always getting the same disastrous result... What should I do?
Thanks in advance for any help you can give.
Alberto
