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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?"

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