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-A WinModem is an overglorified SoundCard masking as a MoDem. The device itself has little else than a [DAC]/[ADC], and the actual signal processing logic is rolled off to the host computer's [CPU], where it is hidden inside a "driver". Manufacturers usually write such drivers only for [Windows]. Fortunately there are increasingly more WinModem drivers available for [Linux]. Such [MoDem]s get affectionately called [LinModems | http://www.linmodems.org/]. Beware though, there are only few of these among the [WinModem]s
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+A WinModem is an overglorified SoundCard masking as a MoDem. The device itself has little else than a [DAC]/[ADC], and the actual signal processing logic is rolled off to the host computer's [CPU], where it is hidden inside a "driver". Manufacturers usually write such drivers only for [Windows]. Fortunately there are increasingly more WinModem drivers available for [Linux]. Such [MoDem]s get affectionately called [LinModems | http://www.linmodems.org/]. Beware though, there are only few of these among the winmodems
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[Intel] now has a supported WinModem chipset ([DSE] sells modems based on these) and because they have both [Windows] and [Linux] drivers [Intel] calls them HaM (Host-accelerated Modem). How a 56K WinModem is "accelerated" in comparison to a 56k hardware modem isn't entirely clear; this appears to be MarkeTroid speak.
The MWave WinModem in [IBM] [ThinkPad]s is also supported. IBM released the driver under [GPL], so it has made its way into the official [Kernel] source tree.
By far the most common [WinModem]s (at least in New Zealand) are ones based on Conexant chipsets. For a long time there was no way at all to get any of these to work in Linux, but at some point [they released Linux drivers | http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/].
If you want to get a new MoDem for a Linux and would like to avoid the cost of a hardware MoDem, DanielLawson recommends a Lucent or Agere compatible chipset based WinModem, after good experience with a Lectron I56LVP/F4 ($32 as of May 2004) that runs fine with the [ltmodem drivers | http://www.physcip.uni-stuttgart.de/heby/ltmodem/]. If the binary package doesn't work for you, get the source package and follow the instructions, there's a couple of scripts you can run which basically automate the whole installation.
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+Some modern distros include drivers for the more common winmodems.
+* [Linmodems|http://www.linmodems.org/]
+* [Linmodems support|http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/]
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