No, there isn't software around for these modems, and to the best of my
knowledge none is being developed. As I understand it, any driver would have
to be specific to a particular brand of HSP modem (the proper generic term),
and developing it would require access to information that the card
manufacturers regard as proprietary -- so GPL'd drivers are not a
possibility, reducing interest in the developer community. Unless a card
manufacturer itself decides to offer a Linux driver for its own product, we
are unlikely to see a way to use HSP modems with Linux.
For more info on this, see the "Winmodem mini-FAQ" at URL
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
At 04:56 PM 4/16/99 -0700, Bob wrote:
>Greetings - As a real newbie a dumb question. I appreciate what has
>become to be called the WIN MODEM which will only work with WINDOWs
>because part of the modem activity is being performed by the driver
>software which is specific to that OS. Given these modems are some what
>cheaper and seem to work just as fine is there a LINUX driver to do this
>modem "function"? Maybe such a bit of software is being considered.
>Seems such a need exists.
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