What about controllerless "hardware" modems?

From: Marin Krkac (mkrkac_at_public.srce.hr)
Date: 01/18/04

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    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?

    Buying a new modem could be an option, but now that I've found out this
    "hardware" modem isn't exactly what I thought it would be, I'm confused.
    Besides soft modems, the only cheaper models I could buy are all
    contorollerless. There are some cheaper external models, but it says
    that they are also built around the Intel/Ambient chipset, so I don't
    see how they could be any better, even though they're external (that's
    really confusing me - so far I thought that there was no way you could
    go wrong with an external modem).

    The only thing that's left are the expensive models, like US Robotics.
    But they are a little too expensive for me, and I really don't see a
    point in running FreeBSD without a modem.

    Any advice would be really appreciated.
    Thanks.

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