From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 6 19:26:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from p2.acadia.net (p2.acadia.net [205.217.210.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1AA214C4B for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 19:26:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tbuswell@acadia.net) Received: from smpbox.bogus.net (ell57.acadia.net [205.217.218.41]) by p2.acadia.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA09478; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 22:34:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from tbuswell@localhost) by smpbox.bogus.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA34460; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 22:24:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tbuswell) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 22:24:30 -0400 (EDT) To: "Andrew Reilly" Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCI modems do not work??? In-Reply-To: <19990907120054.A93315@gurney.reilly.home> References: <199909062117.QAA49795@celery.dragondata.com> <37D44AF4.92D4120C@xonix.com> <19990907120054.A93315@gurney.reilly.home> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14292.29527.787576.817857@localhost.bogus.net> From: tbuswell@acadia.net Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew Reilly writes: > Does anyone know whether there's more to a "WinModem" than a > line hybrid, a codec and a PCI interface? "It Depends". For many of them, yes, that's pretty much all there is. However Motorola (at least) has a reference design for a "WinModem" that uses their DSP56303 on the board, which has some nice advantages outside of the fact that the host really doesn't have to do much when the modem is operating. I have yet to get my hands on one, however. I've been casually buying WinModems that advertise a Motorola chipset in the hopes of eventually getting one of these, just because I've been doing a fair amount of work with the DSP56303 lately. So far, I've got two $10 coasters -- Motorola also sells "single chip softmodems" that just have a codec (the PCI interface chip is listed in their product selection guide, but attempts to get programming information on them hasn't gone anywhere yet). This was a topic on slashdot a while back, and there's a website of marginal value on the topic -- linmodems.org -Ted To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message