[plug] PCI Modems

[Leon Brooks]

Bernard Blackham wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Lord Kino wrote:
> > is there any way at all to get a 56K WebExcel internal PCI modem
> > working in linux?
> > Its bin pissin me off having to either go 14K (old 14K External Modem) in
> > Linux or use windows
> 
> If it's one of those dud winmodems, then there might be some hope. Check
> out www.linmodems.org to see if there's a linux driver for it. If it isn't
> a winmodem then I'd suspect some jumper settings on the card to force it
> to an IRQ and it _should_ work as any normal modem...

Sometimes you need the new serial driver (http://serial.sourceforge.net/ off the
top of my head, comes with 2.4.*) as the PCI hardware modems tend to live at
weird addresses and similar stuff too painful for the older driver to
contemplate.

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