On Mon 14 May 2007 17:14:46 NZST +1200, Nick Rout wrote:

> > ltmodems have a good history of working on linux. However nasty things
> > sometimes happen to these community developed drivers - a combination of
> > fast moving kernel ABI's, changes in gcc, etc. So what worked
> 
> oops didn't finish, meant to say:
> 
> So, what worked on kernel 2.6.x may no longer work on kernel 2.6.x+n

Worse, the good history of ltmodem chips has ended. Current versions (last 2
years?), with Agere xyz (will look it up) chips are totally unsupported with
no fix in sight. The Agere 1648C chip based cards are fine. Run the
scanModem script[1] to find out which is right, and which is dead[2].
I guess with everyone moving to adsl, Agere no longer sees any need to
supply a driver. That leaves Intel536/537 (which did not havecontinuous
support either) and slmodem chips (use scanModem!).

Volker

[1] http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/scanModem.gz
[2] The Princess Bride

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