Modem question

[Michael MacDonald]

Hello,

I know not all PCI based modems are win-modems because i've used severial of
them with no problems under Linux/FreeBSD.  The 3Com USR 5610 (i believe)
Internal 56K PCI Fax Modem works fine in linux, infact it was probably the
best internal modem I ever had. I believe it also reasonably priced =<$80. I
was using it for about 2 years prior to getting DSL.  You would have to set
it up manually using setserial (like "setserial /dev/ttyS2 irq 5 port 0xd800
autoconfig" for example) by digging through "cat /proc/pci" and such. The
link with specifications for it on 3com was
http://www.3com.com/client/pcd/products/prod-faxmod5610-int.html but it is
long since gone, I'm sure with a little searching that the correct link
could probably be recovered with no problem.

-Hope this helps,
Michael MacDonald
macado at phoenixdsl.com

----- Original Message -----
From: Chuck Young <chy at genuity.com>
To: <discuss at Blu.Org>
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 2:43 PM
Subject: Modem question


> Greetings,
>
> It's been so long since I have bought a modem that I don't know much about
> them anymore.  It's also been a while since I have made it to a BLU
meeting,
> but I digress...
>
> I know there are "win" modems that offload almost everything onto the CPU
> and only run under windows, and there are "real" modems that do the job on
> the card.  Also, I see a lot of PCI modems, with ISA versions getting kind
> of scarce.
>
> I thought I would walk into PC's for everyone and just buy a decent "real"
> PCI modem and be done with it, but was told "they are all winmodems now".
I
> walked out unhappy.
>
> There's no shortage of disinformation out there.  Are there real PCI
modems
> available for use with linux?  I liked jumpers and manuals.  Does anyone
> have a suggestion?
>
> ----------------------
> Chuck Young
> ISE, New England Region
> ----------------------
>
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