Re: dial-up modem usage
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:16:12 -0500 (EST), Rob Owens wrote:
>
> I know that winmodems probably won't work, so I may have to swap it out
> for something in my old parts bin.
>
That's not necessarily true anymore. I hate winmodems, but some of the
most popular winmodems do have Linux drivers these days; although all
or part of the driver is usually a proprietary binary blob. I have
had success with the LT modem in some older IBM ThinkPad models, as
well as the SmartLink AMR modem in an IBM ThinkPad X31. Although it
was a royal pain, I also managed to get a Conexant winmodem working
with Squeeze at full rated speed. What passes for a "modem" these
days is pretty pathetic. On the hardware side, it is little more than
an electrical interface between a PCI bus and an analog telephone line.
The most recent winmodems, such as the SmartLink AMR and the Conexant
winmodems are just that. The "modem" is pure software. The driver
*is* the modem. There's no UART, no DSP, no nothing, in the hardware.
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