[ale] "Hardware" modem

Mon May 24 09:58:30 EDT 2004

I don't know. The Intel developers' page for that modem describes it as
"controllerless" so I'd almost want to say no. They do, however, have
Linux drivers available.

http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/Product_Filter.asp?ProductID=977

-- 
Christopher R. Curzio     |  Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax
http://www.accipiter.org  |  si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
:wq!

Thus Spake Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>:
Mon, 24 May 2004 09:40:40 -0400

> I've purchased what is marketd as a hardware modem.  I installed it an
> am not seeing a ttyS1 associated with it.
> 
> lspci output:
> 00:10.0 Communication controller: Intel Corp. 536EP Data Fax Modem
>         Subsystem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 1000
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 12
>         Memory at e5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
>         Capabilities: [e0] Power Management version 2
> 
> 
> dmesg output:
> 
> [root at SAM-devel root]# dmesg | grep tty
> Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/md0 console=ttyS0,115200
> ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> 
> 
> ttyS0 is the standard serial port.  
> 
> Is this really a hardware modem?
> 
> Here is the device:
> http://www.powsupply.com/intelmodem56k.htm
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale