On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, guy keren wrote:
assuming no one develops new modems any longer (what for? 3rd-world countries?), it's likely the same chips are used, and hence - the same
Right, this is way up there with '640k RAM should be enough for everyone'. Rest assured that there are, and will be modems for non-PC use for a LONG LONG time. And they were around before the PC. Most of them are not super fast (56k) but there are certain things that just won't work without them.
drivers. since the rockwell chips were very common - many winmodems are supported under linux. i think that a simple 'lspci' will tell you what chip your modem is based on.
There are open source drivers for Lucent chipsets but you can never know before trying. There are subtle problems with hardware (esp. with laptops and no name cards). The best chances are with 'medium' price oem brand (i.e. made by someone who actually runs a factory) cards.
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