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Subject: Re: Supporting "winmodems" (was: PCI Modems Not Shown As Supported Hardware)
In-Reply-To: <20001105114757.A307@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Nov 5, 2000 11:47:58 am"
To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey)
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 21:05:18 +0100 (MET)
Cc: imp@village.org, antony@abacus.co.uk, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org
From: Helge Oldach <Helge.Oldach@de.origin-it.com>
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Greg Lehey:
>On Thursday, 2 November 2000 at 10:04:08 -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
>> In message <3A013CF9.E1CC203A@abacus.co.uk> Antony T Curtis writes:
>>> What about Lucent-based "controllerless" modems? AFAIK, there is
>>> support for this chip is in other non-doze platforms. Would anyone
>>> know where to start with it?
>> No. Those weon't work. IF there are drivers, someone else can port
>> them.
>I'm afraid it won't be long before these are the only modems available
>for laptops. I even accidentally bought on in PCMCIA format a couple of
>weeks ago

OTOH, softmodems are getting less popular in the mobile phone market.
For instance Nokia and Siemens have entirely stepped back from
softmodems for mobile handsets in their driver software for Micros~1
based platforms. All newer phones have a built-in "hard" modem that
adheres traditional command set conventions.

This is probably related to the fact that a hard modem basically comes
free because the voice DSP can be used for data as well.

Helge


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