   
  Linuxant Inc.  provides Linux drivers for Conexant chipset modems
  Go to http://www.linuxant.com/drivers
-Find the HCF or HSF menu in the left part of the screen.
-Read README.
-Read INSTALLATION.
-Click DOWNLOAD.
-Accept conditions.
-Find text: "You can download HCF (or HSF) modem packages from the driver
            download page." and click there.
-Look for your distribution, your processor, and your kernel.
-Download the matching file.
-Read again and, if you do this under Windows, print the installation
 instructions matching the kind of driver file which you downloaded.
-Now just follow these instructions.
 A detailed software installation example is provided at:
   http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/archive-fourth/msg00350.html
   
 The HCF (Host Controller Free) modems which have a digital signal processsing (DSP) chipset,
 while the HSF in the soft modem family without a DSP.
 HSF support is included with SuSE 9.0 and later releases
 Modems with the following PCI_IDs also have Conexant HCF (Controller free) chipsets.
  1024:1024 (Zenith Data Systems)
  148D:1003 (DIGICOM Systems)
  158B:0015 (Allied Data Technologies Tornado  VFM56x-PRC)
  141A:1035 (Apache Micro)
 The following six may be either HCF of HSF modems. Test the HSF package first
  (127a,14f1):(1025,1085, 2005)
  Should a HCF driver installation fail to serve among there,
  then uninstall and instead try the HSF driver resource.
 Subsystem HSF Conexant soft modems serve under AC97 or MC97 controllers. These include:
  14f1:(5422 2002) , plus many others with vendors assigned PCI IDs.
 
 After loading of HSF drivers, there will be displayed by command: /sbin/lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P
hsfich                119116   0  (autoclean)
hsfserial              26388   0  (autoclean)
hsfengine            1126348   0  (autoclean) [hsfserial]
hsfosspec              35328   0  (autoclean) [hsfich hsfserial hsfengine]
     plus many others not modem related.
 While drivers are pre-compiled for some Linux distributions,
   the installation of the HCF/HSF packages DOES in general require kernel-source/ preparation,
   as described in Modem/DriverCompiling.txt.
   
 There is a conflict between modules snd-intel8x0m and  hsfmc97ich.
 The snd-intel8x0m Must be loaded first or the system may hang upon hsfmc97ich insertion.
      http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/archive-fourth/msg03027.html
      
 A post install suggestion for adjusting PCI latency is:
         http://phep2.technion.ac.il/linmodems/archive/msg05210.html

