Re: What about controllerless "hardware" modems?

From: Marin Krkac (mkrkac_at_public.srce.hr)
Date: 01/20/04

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    Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 00:24:53 +0100
To: clayton rollins <crollins666@hotmail.com>

    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.

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