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Newer page: version 12 Last edited on Sunday, August 7, 2005 9:17:11 pm by PeterHewett Revert
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-WinModem - Modem , usually PCI, which relies on the host computer for it 's processing power . Most often these modems only work in Windows with the modem drivers . However increasingly there are more drivers available for Linux, so these modems get affectionately called " LinModems" . Beware tho, not many modems are fully supported under Linux . Intel now has such a chip ([DSE ] sells modems based on these) and because they have both windows and linux drivers Intel calls them HaM[1] - Host-Accelerated Modem . Another example is the mwave winmodem in IBM thinkpads - IBM has released a GPL linux driver , which is now in the main kernel
+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
  
-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. At some point after I (SamJansen ) needed Conexant modem support for Linux they released Linux drivers. The first place to stop if you have a WinModem is probably: [http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/]
+[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
  
-See Also http://www .linmodems.org/
+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/].  
  
-[1] I have seen modems branded as HaM around for a long time. In fact, the first ever WinModem I saw was an ISA 33k6 HaM. This was in pentium class machine , and was purchased with the machine . HaM is just the generic term for WinModem
+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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