[Bulk] Re:re: Hardware modem

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 06:46:31PM -0500, Paul DiRezze wrote:
> lspci -v yields the following
> 
> 00:0e.0 Communication Controller: Conexant: Unknown device 10b6 (rev 89)
>         Subsystem: AOPEN Inc.: Unknown device 00c2
>         Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- 
> ParErr- SERR- FastB2B-
>         Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>         Latency: 32
>         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
>         Region 0: Memory at 34000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64k]
>         Region 1: I/O ports at 8400 [size=8]
>         Capabilities: [40] Power Mangement version 2
>            Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+, D1-, D2-, 
> D3hot+, D3cold+)
>            Status: D0  PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> 
> I double-checked this but since I transcribed this by hand there may the 
> odd typo.
> 
> What does this information tell me?

Conexant device 10b6 is a Conexant HCF mode, which is a winmodem.  There
is a linux driver, but it is not open source, and only does 14.4, while
for some money can buy a 56k capable driver.

So that is NOT a hardware modem.  Whoever said it was, was wrong, or
lied.

Lennart Sorensen
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