Re: PCI modem

["Jens B. Jorgensen" <jjorgens@bdsinc.com>]

The problem is not that it's a "winmodem". The winmodem was an ISA device which didn't
represent itself to the system as a serial interface but rather had a more low-level
interface which required your host CPU to do a lot of the work a modem generally does
on its own. The problem is simply that there isn't yet support for PCI modems. I
expect that since modems seem to be going this way in general that sooner or later
someone will get device support finished for them. I'm not sure if anyone's working on
this or not.

Robert Rati wrote:

> I was just given a PCI modem by a friend of mine and he calims it's a PNP
> modem but not a winmodem.  I hope he's right, but I don't know how to tell
> if it's a winmodem.  Debian sees the modem when I cat /proc/pci and calls
> it a serial interface card (same thing windows calls it until you give it
> drivers) but can't figure out the maker of the device.  It's a Rockwell
> modem and really gerneric so I don't find that too surprising.  My BIOS
> sees the modem and says that the modem is on IRQ 9, which unfortunately is
> also where my sound card is.  Can anyone help me out in getting this modem
> working in Linux?  I had an isa pnp modem before that I got to work, but I
> don't know how to get a pci modem to work.  Can anyone help me out?
> Thanks.
>
>                                                                 Rob
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