Andrew Reilly writes: > Does anyone know whether there's more to a "WinModem" than a > line hybrid, a codec and a PCI interface?
"It Depends". For many of them, yes, that's pretty much all there is. However Motorola (at least) has a reference design for a "WinModem" that uses their DSP56303 on the board, which has some nice advantages outside of the fact that the host really doesn't have to do much when the modem is operating. I have yet to get my hands on one, however. I've been casually buying WinModems that advertise a Motorola chipset in the hopes of eventually getting one of these, just because I've been doing a fair amount of work with the DSP56303 lately. So far, I've got two $10 coasters -- Motorola also sells "single chip softmodems" that just have a codec (the PCI interface chip is listed in their product selection guide, but attempts to get programming information on them hasn't gone anywhere yet). This was a topic on slashdot a while back, and there's a website of marginal value on the topic -- linmodems.org -Ted To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
