Hello I've being trying to install my usb HSF Conexant dial up modem to my Raspberry PI 2 B which is running Raspbian OS. I checked a company named Linuxant that makes these kind of drivers but apparently they only support x86 CPU architecture. Are there dial up HSF Linux generic drivers for ARM architecture? I tried to use Debian drivers but as they were for x86 they didn't work with ARM and I got the following error:
dpkg: error processing hsfmodem_7.80.02.06oem_i386.deb (--install):
package architecture (i386) does not match system (armhf)
Errors were encountered while processing:
hsfmodem_7.80.02.06oem_i386.deb
This dial up modem is the only possible way I have to connect to the Internet (I'm Cuban). Right now I'm connecting my PC to the Internet with this dial up modem, making a hotspot and sending the internet to the Raspberry through wifi but this severely decreases the speed.
Recently I have found the following explanation to the process of installing the driver, but I don't understand step 3, does it mean that I can rebuild the driver for ARM? How do I do it?
METHOD B: DEBIAN PACKAGE (*.deb) If you have obtained the driver package in DEBIAN format:
install the package with
dpkg -i hsfmodem_{version}_{arch}.deb
, if apt-get or some other tool hasn't already done it for you.if necessary, run
hsfconfig
to complete the installation, or to change your modem's configuration.If you need to rebuild the Debian generic package from source, you can get the TAR package, and from the top directory run:
make debdist
. A pre-compiled DEB package for the currently running kernel can be built usingmake debprecomp
instead.