Re: PCI Modem Support

Martin Mares (mj@ucw.cz)
Wed, 21 Oct 1998 22:44:31 +0200


Hi,

> I noticed at the last computer show in my local area that PCI modem are
> becoming very numerous. They actually outnumbered the ISA modems at the
> show. Is anybody working on writing a Linux driver for these modems? If
> not I may want to give it a shot. Given PCI's solving of the IRQ limitation
> (as well as probably the 4 COM port limit) on the PC I could definately put
> these PCI modems to good use, besides I will need it if Intel is successful
> in killing ISA (and the COM ports) this year. On another note somebody told
> me that all PCI modems were WinModems. Does anybody know if this is true?
> I doubt it, but the possibility is there.
>
> - A. Barbachan
>
> PS
>
> Anybody working on support for PCI parallel and serial ports? I may
> want to look into these as well.

I'd like to help you, but I have no such cards here. I'm very interesting
in seeing a 'lspci -vvx' dump for both serial and parallel PCI cards.

Have a nice fortnight

-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
"while (*p++ = *q++);"   -- Dennis M. Ritchie

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