Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 16:57:23 +0100 From: Simon Dick <simond@irrelevant.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>, Peter van Heusden <pvh@schoolnet.org.za>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding support for Duxbury PCI modem to FreeBSD 4.4 Message-ID: <20011016165722.A988@irrelevant.org> In-Reply-To: <200110161505.f9GF5L732042@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 09:05:21AM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110160822010.16625-100000@xena.gsicomp.on.ca> <200110161505.f9GF5L732042@harmony.village.org>
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On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 09:05:21AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110160822010.16625-100000@xena.gsicomp.on.ca> Matthew Emmerton writes: > : On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Peter van Heusden wrote: > : > : > On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 09:35:58AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > : > > In message <9DCF7A9E7AD27A4F962A37F7E78607B10CFAEC@ukhokho.ct.schoolnet.org.za> "Peter van Heusden" writes: > : > > : > I'm having a look at the Linux 2.4 kernel code, since they apparently > : > have winmodem support (including for the SM56 chipset, which is now > : > no longer supported by Motorola - double Aaaargh!), but will probably > : > have to go with an external modem, since it seems to be impossible to > : > get internal PCI non-winmodems. > : > : 3Com makes a PCI "hardware" (non-Winmodem) modem. > > I've seen only 3 hardware pci modems. All are based on the lucent > "kermit" chipset, but 3com PCI FaxModems have their own id. > > Well, I take that back. There's at least one pccard based pci modem. > There is a PLX part that glues the pccard bus to the pci ala some of > the wi adapters. And there's an old modem chipset on the card. These > were made out of surplus parts and I never saw them in real channels > (and to be honest, only consulted in writing a driver at the high > level for them, I've not put one in a machine or had one in hand). > > I'm not sure that the SurfRider that's listed in the driver really is > a hardware modem. All the other cards should likely be moved to my > puc bridge driver, but until I have that working, it is best to leave > things alone. :-) One problem with sio is that you can't have > different clock chip rates than the default. Some multiport boards > have faster xtals that allow higher data rates :-(. Please don't remove the SurfRider one: sio0: <SmartLink 5634PCV SurfRider> port 0xa400-0xa407 irq 12 at device 10.0 on pci0 sio0: moving to sio2 sio2: type 16550A It was me who submitted the ID for it, it's my main modem :) -- Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org "Why do I get this urge to go bowling everytime I see Tux?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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