[thinkpad] Re: [thinkpad] [ltp] T23 with arm soft modem

[Tino Keitel]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 08:54:45 -0500, Tod Harter wrote:
> The proper answer to all this of course is 'well what are you waiting for, 
> write a driver!!!' ;o).

I think the problem is not to write the driver, but get the information
you need to write the driver from 3com. As the first thing they want
you to do before they start to speak to you is to sign a NDA, this
driver will be pretty useless since you are the only one who will be
allowed to use the driver when it's finished. :-)

> 
> On Thursday 12 December 2002 04:06 am, Michael Selway wrote:
> > JC WOODWARD writes:
> >  > From: <jjmckenzie51@earthlink.net>
> >  >
> >  > >The T23 shipped with an AMR modem which is NOT supported by the LTModem
> >  >
> >  > I see on closer inspection that the IBM webpage says the LTModem was
> >  > shipped with the T20, T21, and T22.  Which, of course, does NOT mean T2*
> >  > as I had assumed.
> >
> > it's worse than that: the T21 (and maybe others) shipped with one
> > of two different modems on their internal miniPCI cards.  One can
> > be driven from linux (with ltmodem, iirc), the other, by 3com,
> > can't.  lspci on my machine sez:
> >
> > 00:03.1 Communication controller: 3Com Corporation Mini PCI 56k Winmodem
> > (rev 20)
> >
> > I believe there are no plans to support this modem under linux.
> 
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> Tod Harter
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