Quoting Pablo Manalastas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I was hoping someone would say "just look for the chip with this > number and you will know that it is a real modem. If this chip > is not there, then it must be a winmodem". But the hardware > techies in this list seem to be in silent mode.
o If the card has a disturbingly small amount of silicon on it, it's probably a winmodem. o Most PCI modems are winmodems. (This is not because PCI isn't a good idea, but rather because manufacturers who've decided to make a winmodem need lots of bus bandwidth to offload work onto the host CPU. Thus, it's simply not possible to make an ISA winmodem.) o If the card is essentially a throwaway component thrown in almost for free, it's probably a winmodem. o If the biggest (but still tiny) chip on the card bears one of the following brand names, it's probably a winmodem: Rockwell, Conexant, ESS, IBM, Agere, Lucent, AT&T, Cirrus Logic, Ambient Technology, Intel, Motorola. (Of course, it's likely that some of those companies also make real modem chipsets.) I've posted a list of all specific winmodem chipsets known to me, separately. If the largest chip says TI or US Robotics, it's probably not a winmodem -- but please note that USR, to its eternal shame, actually invented the winmodem concept and owns the trademark to that term. -- Cheers, Founding member of the Hyphenation Society, a grassroots-based, Rick Moen not-for-profit, locally-owned-and-operated, cooperatively-managed, [EMAIL PROTECTED] modern-American-English-usage-improvement association. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
