PCI modems supported.

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

borg wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>I was looking at the hardware-i386 under releases for
>a PCI modem V.92 data/fax/voice that is supported
>under FreeBSD. Found only a reference to 3com 3CP5609
>not much on google, but one OpenBSD link compained
>about it.
>
>I would like to get a feedback if anyone had a
>successful experience with one of the following:
>
>Hayes ; Zoom ; Airlink+ ; Broadxent.
>
>As a last resort I don't mind to use an external modem
>with serial connection. It's just bulky that's why I'm
>avoiding it. 
>
>regards,
>  
>

The general answer (at least in the past [was/is]) that
PCI modems with controller chips built in (which are
getting a tad rare these days) are fine; most PCI modems,
though, are "Winmodems", built to utilize some software
interface that is M$-only (or something like that) in
order to put the controller load on the CPU.

Therefore, if you can verify that your Hayes, Zoom, Airlink
or Broadxent modem is not "controllerless" you'd have a
chance of being able to use it.

A potential alternative:  a port exists (/usr/ports/comms/ltmdm)
that allows FBSD to talk to the so-called "winmodems" that have
a Lucent chipset.  I know little about it personally, though --- I
have opted to use USR serial modems with FreeBSD thus far.

Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.