On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 09:05:21AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Matthew 
>Emmerton writes:
> : On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Peter van Heusden wrote:
> : 
> : > On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 09:35:58AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> : > > In message 
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Peter van 
>Heusden" writes:
> : >
> : > I'm having a look at the Linux 2.4 kernel code, since they apparently
> : > have winmodem support (including for the SM56 chipset, which is now
> : > no longer supported by Motorola - double Aaaargh!), but will probably
> : > have to go with an external modem, since it seems to be impossible to
> : > get internal PCI non-winmodems.
> : 
> : 3Com makes a PCI "hardware" (non-Winmodem) modem.
> 
> I've seen only 3 hardware pci modems.  All are based on the lucent
> "kermit" chipset, but 3com PCI FaxModems have their own id.
> 
> Well, I take that back.  There's at least one pccard based pci modem.
> There is a PLX part that glues the pccard bus to the pci ala some of
> the wi adapters.  And there's an old modem chipset on the card.  These
> were made out of surplus parts and I never saw them in real channels
> (and to be honest, only consulted in writing a driver at the high
> level for them, I've not put one in a machine or had one in hand).
> 
> I'm not sure that the SurfRider that's listed in the driver really is
> a hardware modem.  All the other cards should likely be moved to my
> puc bridge driver, but until I have that working, it is best to leave
> things alone. :-)  One problem with sio is that you can't have
> different clock chip rates than the default.  Some multiport boards
> have faster xtals that allow higher data rates :-(.

Please don't remove the SurfRider one:
sio0: <SmartLink 5634PCV SurfRider> port 0xa400-0xa407 irq 12 at device 10.0 on pci0
sio0: moving to sio2
sio2: type 16550A

It was me who submitted the ID for it, it's my main modem :)

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