Hi all, I'm currently searching for a PCI modem that will be used to receive faxes. I've tried out a few modems but they all use conexant chipsets, which need out-of-tree kernel drivers and currently doesn't work here (kernel oops when the installation script modprobes the driver). Does anyone know of a PCI modem that works out of the box with in-tree kernel drivers? Thanks, Glenn
At Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:05:49 +0200 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:> > Hi all, > > > I'm currently searching for a PCI modem that will be used to receive faxes. I've tried out a few modems but they all use conexant chipsets, which need out-of-tree kernel drivers and currently doesn't work here (kernel oops when the installation script modprobes the driver). > > Does anyone know of a PCI modem that works out of the box with in-tree kernel drivers?Does it *have* to be a PCI (internal) modem? Except for a few *very expensive* ones (3Com/US Robotics *used* to make one I think), they are all 'controllerless' modems (aka 'winmodems'). Controllerless modems are poorly support under Linux, and there is little or no motivation for the kernel developers to bother supporting them. It might actually be easier to get an old ISA modem card (off eBay), except modern computers don't have ISA busses anymore :-). It would actually be cheaper (and far easier) to get an *external* RS232 modem. At worst you'll need a serial port card (Lava's PCI serial port cards are quite well supported). In effect the combination of a Lava PCI serial port card and a RS232 modem would be a PCI modem, although the 'modem' itself would be external.> > > Thanks, > > > Glenn > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >-- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/
HylaFax.org's list of Analog/POTS SoftModems has a list of winmodems mixed in with just plain software. (Digital Modems are for ISDN / T1 phone circuits, not home). So you may want to ask their mailing list and chat room. Keeping in mind that hardware that works for one type of softmodem project (voice) may not work for another (faxing). Linux Gazette has an article on a $10 dollaer Linux Answering Machine that says that "Intel 537-based modem (softmodem)" works. A "PCI slot that does not share interrupts" is very important bc it will generate thousands of interrupts. External modems allow you to reset the modem without resetting the entire pc. On 7/23/09, RedShift <redshift at pandora.be> wrote:> Hi all, > > > I'm currently searching for a PCI modem that will be used to receive faxes. > I've tried out a few modems but they all use conexant chipsets, which need > out-of-tree kernel drivers and currently doesn't work here (kernel oops when > the installation script modprobes the driver). > > Does anyone know of a PCI modem that works out of the box with in-tree > kernel drivers? > > > Thanks, > > > Glenn > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
RedShift wrote:> Does anyone know of a PCI modem that works out of the box with in-tree kernel drivers?I use a couple of unbranded ?3.99 sort of modems, the way to go about it is to find out what chipsets are used in the modem and then verify that the modem is indeed a real hardware modem. Connextant is one company that makes quite a lot of the chipsets used over the last 4 - 5 years, but they have many s/w modem too - so make sure you buy into the right thing. btw, most pcmcia modems work fine - and its not hard getting a pci hosted pcmcia socket on ebay these days. Depends on what you are trying to get. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq