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  1. Winmodems by petrus4 · · Score: 2, Insightful · on The Linux Modem Problem?

    I've got a Netcomm 56k internal based on the Lucent Mars chipset. Contrary to the amount of flak I've heard levelled at the hardware, the drivers from here work solidly in my experience, with both 2.4 and 2.6 series kernels.

    However, not all winmodems are created equal. I'm not entirely sure about this, but I believe it depends on whether or not the winmodem in question actually DOES have a controller chip and just needs proprietary drivers, as opposed to a true controllerless modem. From what I've read, the Lucent AMR modems are genuinely controllerless and thus not supported under Linux.

    In a nutshell, because the term "winmodem" is a catchment word and actually describes quite a large number of different devices, you need to make sure you have reasonably intimate knowledge of which specific breed of winmodem you've got. Some will work, some won't...but again, in my experience anyway with my own chipset, both the 2.4 and 2.6 Lucent modules work well.

    Of course, a standard hardware modem is always more desirable if you can get one...particularly seeing as the Lucent modules taint the kernel, which may be a problem for some people. (it doesn't particularly bother me) The advantages of winmodems however are price, greater level of availability these days from what I've seen, and marginally better throughput than their standard cousins in some instances. I'm hoping to eventually save up for a standard/external one of these days, and as I said they are more desirable if you can find/afford it...but I'm at least surviving on my Lucent right now.

  2. IBM Thinkpad... by kupci · · Score: 1 · on Micro ATX and Linux?
    Good point. Specifically I am familiar with IBM thinkpads

    See the following link for the mwave modem in IBM thinkpads. Also for the T23

  3. Re:Yay for binary modules by inquisitor · · Score: 1 · on Vanishing Features Of The 2.6 Kernel

    They are actually being updated by Lucent/Agere: the basic version of the binary module keeps changing (the last version was updated to include GCC3 support). I'm rather hoping they're going to include support for their AMR modems soon, since the current version doesn't support them...

    Actually, most Win98 drivers won't work on WinXP - due to the fact that they're completely different kernels. Some drivers (written to the 'Windows Driver Model', an encapsulation of the Win2K driver interface) will work on both OSes, but I've seen precious few. Most Win2K drivers will work though, excepting Creative Labs products.

    And FYI, there is a Lucent/Agere driver for WinXP included in the base OS (and a newer one available from Agere themselves); they're not giving up support yet. For those of us with Lucent kit, we can only hope...

  4. Modem works? by Quixote · · Score: 5, Informative · on Installing Linux On A Wal-Mart OS-less machine

    Some of the followups to that article mention that a working version of the modem driver can be obtained from http://www.heby.de/ltmodem.

    Given this, it would be nice if someone could put together a complete linux distro (complete with the OpenOffice suite, etc.) ready-to-run on this box. Heck, maybe we could even convince Wal-Mart to give it away with every box!

  5. Re:Hey Hemos! Source code! by pbryan · · Score: 2, Informative · on Which Laptop To Buy?

    Sure, it's binary only, but it works.

    If you want the source to this modem driver, go to http://www.heby.de/ltmodem. On Debian, I simply modprobe ltserial and ltmodem, with no options on the IBM ThinkPad X21. SB the same on the T20.

    BTW, it's been updated significantly since 5.68 (6.00 was just released). I'm currently using 5.99 without any significant issues, except sometimes long initial handshaking.