Stephen Tell wrote:
>
> >Has anyone tried getting sufficient technical information on a winmodem
> >so that a linux driver could be written. I have a ThinkPad 390X with a
> >Lucent winmodem.
> The MWAVE chip on your 390 (and my thinkpad 600) isn't really a winmodem in
> the worst sense of the word - it is a programmable DSP chip, so the
> the pentium CPU doesn't have to do all of the signal processing work as I
> understand it does some "winmodems" that are simply analog-to-digital
> converters with telephone jacks on back.
While you are right about what an Mwave modem is, the ThinkPad 390X does
not contain one. Note that he says 'Lucent Winmodem' which is exactly
what it contains. The only current ThinkPad models with Mwave chips are
the 600 and 770 models.
bfn,
wabbit.
