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+Last free Linuxant hsflinmodem drivers
+
+Linuxant is a company that provides software drivers for conexant
+modems and chipsets to run on linux machines.  These types of
+modems are commonly known as 'winmodems' as their software is
+designed for use on Microsoft Windows.  Linuxant at one time
+provided the software for free but recently they have been
+charging money for the drivers.  They still provide a 'free' set
+of drivers that limit the modem speed to 14.4Kbps.
+
+The last "free" (as in beer) drivers come with a license that prohibits
+distribution of versions marked "beta" or "lnxtbeta".  Therefore it may be
+difficult to find the source files.  You may want to keep the source package
+around in case the files become unavailable.
+
+These drivers will most likely not work with a 2.6.x kernel.
+
+Run "hsfconfig" after installing this package to setup the modem.
+This will build some kernel modules and change a few other files.
+
+Unfortunately, this script does not do a great job of cleaning up after itself.
+To completely remove the drivers, you must do the following:
+  1.  Run "hsfconfig --remove" to have the script remove the kernel modules.
+  2.  Remove the package.
+  3.  Remove the /etc/hsf directory.
+  4.  Replace /dev/modem with /dev/modem.old
+