Can This Winmodem Do Linux?

[f@@lpr@@f]

I've been trying to testdrive linux on the internet, without success. My modem is a Conexant PCI SoftV92 Data Fax Modem with SmartCP, which I believe is what they call a winmodem because it relies on drivers written for Windows. If anyone has either done it or knows how to get this modem to work under linux, please share the knowledge.

[3fingersalute]

A quick google gives some pretty good indications its not going to work in Linux. The fact that is a winmodem and needs software installed to operate in windows would also be a pretty good indication.

Grab a different modem, you can pick something up fairly cheap that will work, just google whatever make/model you're going to purchase first, to ensure Linux compatibility (although a lot of them are listing Linux compatibility on the box now if you buy a retail version).

[RejectionMan]

rule of thumb is taht winmodems will not work under linux. My recomendation is to always buy a hardware driven modem as it is not windows dependant, dosent bog down you CPU (because thats what is doing the work in a win modem), and and finaly genraly provide better service and connection speeds in rural areas.

[xsrvx]

http://linmodems.org/

[confus-ed]

Winmodems are not Modems .. not that I agree, or the guy who wrote it apparently

[f@@lpr@@f]

Google is good, but knowledgeable friends are so much better. Someone at the Broadband Forums directed me to a site (http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/) that provides a linux driver purportedly for my winodem, turning it, hopefully, into a linmodem.

[mitsubishi]

Hi, I got my conextant PCI HCF modem working with slackware. The linuxant drivers used to be free, so I used the wayback machine (www.archive.org) to find the file name and located the file through rpmfind or something, there was a small error in the source code, but IIRC it was only a missing " unfortunatly I can't find it now although it only worked with the 2.4 kernel and not the 2.6