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But ya, drhowarddrfine, BSD (and most others..), only support ISA modems, external serial modems, or USB CDC modems. If your systems have PCI modems, they would not be supported.. unfortunately. (This includes most laptops..). Note; some newer systems have modems that are part of the AC97 audio chipset.. AFAIK, they are also unsupported at this time. Sorry. |
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If you haven't heard of them, you may wish to read this Wikipedia article.. it's a sad reality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softmodem |
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The two I was looking at are ISA modems. I'm aware of the WinModems and soft modems. I'm positive I had one or two fax modems in the past that weren't soft driven. The boxes I speak of are from the 90s.
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So what has lead you to believe they're incapable of sending faxes? any specific error you're noticing?
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Googled the part numbers for the ones I had in a box. Used 'cu' to see if it would give anything back but it just hung.
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> lspci ... 00:0a.0 Serial controller: 3Com Corp, Modem Division 56K FaxModem Model 5610 (rev 01) ... |
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Thanks, for sake of completeness.. can anyone recommend non-softmodem PCI devices besides this 3com beauty? |
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Win modems based on the Lucent Chip-set. Those were very popular at the day. The driver is in ports and must be installed before you can see the modem in dmesg. YMMV with that kind of stuff. Last edited by Oko; 25th December 2008 at 01:42 AM. |
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@IdOp, Previous comments withstanding, I agree that this is how all PCI modems should have been designed.. but there are many oddballs.
As for the claims that a PCI modem would be faster then an ISA modem, going by sheer bus speeds, you're undoubtedly correct. But.. I've never seen a dial-up modem exceed 20KB/ps, and the ISA bus could handle a fully saturated link at that rate. For general reliability though, you're right.. a decent PCI implementation would be much better, it also allows for greater hardware independence. (i.e: it'll work in your sparc64,alpha,etc..). |
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Well, recently I got an ISA USR 56K Sportster modem out of a give-away machine. Stuck it in my main box and tried it. It was connecting at 45333 every time. Wow I thought. Well, not so much, the downloads were noticably slower than with the PCI, and very "jerky". Again, proves nothing, could be a dying ISA modem etc. And now, back to our regularly scheduled thread ... |
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Yes, we're back. (From Christmas Eve dinner at my brother's.)
I abruptly ended my previous post because I had to leave but I got connected to the sportster external modem and it tried to dial out but I didn't have the telephone line plugged in. But it looks good so we'll see what the morning may bring. |
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