Re: ISA vs PCI Modem
On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
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: > IMO it's embarrasing that most PCI modem manufacturers are making them
: > winmodems. Talk about cheap!
:
: I'm not sure this is true. The PCI modem I bought last week is linux
: incompatible; it uses shared memory instead of an I/O address and IRQ.
: There's a Windows driver called the "modem enumerator", which emulates
: a port for Windows apps to use. From what I read on the web, the shared
: memory interface doesn't mean Winmodem; unfortunately, it's just not
: really documented by the manufacturers.
Ah, ok - I stand corrected. So perhaps we (Linux users) need to beat on
the manufacturers a bit and get them to release documentation? Sheesh,
I thought we'd done this before! You think they'd learn ...
I've seen multiport serial cards that used shared memory rather than a
traditonal IRQ/IO port - Equinox makes such a card. I've gotten it to
work in Linux, but they write the driver and it's assembly code - yuck.
OTOH it's a (poor) proof of concept ...
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