[Ham-Linux] Looking for a linmodem driver

[Nate Bargmann]

* Paul <mooney at cytanet.com.cy> [2006 Jan 02 03:18 -0600]:
> 
>  * Carlos Alberto <behique at infomed.sld.cu> [2006 Jan 01 18:25 -0600]:
> > 
> >Hi!
> >
> >I'm looking for the driver for my AOpenFM56-SM pci internal modem in order to use it with Mandrake Linux 10.1. 
> >
> >Does any body can help me?
> 
> 
> Conexant drivers are now maintained by:
> 
> http://www.linuxant.com
> 
> There is a freedownload which you can use to test the modem, but it
> restricts it to 14.4K, if it works get the full driver for about USD14.

I have a Thinkpad T42 with a Conexant chipset and the license fee is
now $10 (US).  With kernel 2.6.14 there is an issue with the hardware
flow control and I found that I had to set kppp to use software flow
control for the modem to work.  The hsfmodem mailing list archives at
linuxant.com have the details.

> Alternatively, use that USD14 to spend on a real modem. 8-)

The sl-modem-daemon package in Debian is supposed to work with the ALSA
snd-intel8x0m module to provide Conexant modem capability.  I've been
successful with it using the 2.6.12 kernel in KNOPPIX, but had problems
with the 2.6.14 kernel in Debian (I tried it before I learned of the
software flow control work-around for hsfmodem).

HTH, 

73, de Nate >>

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