Conexant HCF 56k PCI modem help

John Baldwin jhb at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jan 26 08:29:02 PST 2004


On Saturday 24 January 2004 11:47 pm, Rick C. Petty wrote:
> For a project, our customer wants to use these 56k PCI modems from
> Creative.  Although not my first choice, I did some research and discovered
> that the modems use a Conexant Systems, Inc. (vendor id 0x14F1) SmartHCF
> 56k chip (device id 0x1059).  It is not a "winmodem"; the HCF family is
> "Controllerless" vs. the HSF "software" chipsets.

The HCF is a winmodem.  See if it works with the ltmdm driver in
ports/comm/ltmdm.  The ltmdm driver supports lucent based winmodem's, and you 
get can those fairly cheap if it doesn't support the one you are currently 
using.

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