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Subject: Re: What about controllerless "hardware" modems?
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clayton rollins wrote:

> Hi Marin,
> 
> On Jan., 18 2004 Marin Krkac <mkrkac@public.srce.hr> wrote:
> 
>>
>> I have an internal "hardware" modem. When I bought it they said it was a
>> hardware modem and it said so on the box too. It has an Intel/Ambient
>> chipset, or more precisely, as the windows driver says, Intel 536ep. But
>> I found out just a few days ago that it's not actually a real hardware
>> modem. It has a DSP but it's controllerless - that part is in software.
>> It's also called a HAM modem (a Host Accelerated Modem). There is a
>> linux driver but I think it's only partially open-source. Is there any
>> chance this modem might work under FreeBSD?
> 
> You might try running one of the binary linux drivers through linux
> compatibility. If you need technical assistance in doing this, the
> -questions list should be able to help you. There is a chapter in the
> handbook on this:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu.html

I didn't know linux compatibility also applies to drivers.

Thanks for your help.