On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 17:40 -0500, max wrote: > Sean Bruno wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> > -- > >> Can you post the output of lspci -vv for your modem please? > >> > >> Sean > >> > >> - > >> > >> Here you go and thanks for the help. > >> > >> > >> 01:09.0 Communication controller: Conexant HCF 56k Data/Fax Modem (rev > >> 08) > >> Subsystem: Aztech System Ltd Dell Mercury - MDP3880-U(B) Data Fax > >> Modem > >> Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- > >> ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- > >> Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- > >> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- > >> Latency: 32 > >> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 > >> Region 0: Memory at ea000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] > >> Region 1: I/O ports at 9000 [size=8] > >> Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 > >> Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=55mA PME(D0 > >> +,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold-) > >> Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- > >> > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Max > > > > Isn't this one of those s/w modems? I think you will need to buy the > > "conextant" drivers or use the NDIS wrapper with the windows driver. > > > > http://www.linuxant.com > > I didn't think it was but you maybe right. I read that a great many > conextant modems were compatible which is why I went with that modem. I > will have to double check to make sure this one is hardware modem, can > you tell by looking at the board?what would i look for? Would > ndiswrapper give me all the functionality i need here? I have a somewhat > large collection of internal modems at my disposal. Does anyone know of > an internal modem that is compatible with linux? It doesn't have to be > red hat based linux , though that is my preference. I appreciate the help. > > Max > I think that the easiest way to tell is to visually inspect the board. The ones that have a large amount of components, in my experience, are h/w modems. Also, if you put the modem into your box and you can see a TTY appear in the boot dmesg(dmesg|grep -i tty), then linux has recognized and assigned it to a serial interface and you should be good to go. Sean
