Hi all,
I'm currently searching for a PCI modem that will be used to receive faxes. I've tried out a few modems but they all use conexant chipsets, which need out-of-tree kernel drivers and currently doesn't work here (kernel oops when the installation script modprobes the driver).
Does anyone know of a PCI modem that works out of the box with in-tree kernel drivers?
Thanks,
Glenn
At Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:05:49 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Hi all,
I'm currently searching for a PCI modem that will be used to receive faxes. I've tried out a few modems but they all use conexant chipsets, which need out-of-tree kernel drivers and currently doesn't work here (kernel oops when the installation script modprobes the driver).
Does anyone know of a PCI modem that works out of the box with in-tree kernel drivers?
Does it *have* to be a PCI (internal) modem? Except for a few *very expensive* ones (3Com/US Robotics *used* to make one I think), they are all 'controllerless' modems (aka 'winmodems'). Controllerless modems are poorly support under Linux, and there is little or no motivation for the kernel developers to bother supporting them. It might actually be easier to get an old ISA modem card (off eBay), except modern computers don't have ISA busses anymore :-).
It would actually be cheaper (and far easier) to get an *external* RS232 modem. At worst you'll need a serial port card (Lava's PCI serial port cards are quite well supported). In effect the combination of a Lava PCI serial port card and a RS232 modem would be a PCI modem, although the 'modem' itself would be external.
Thanks,
Glenn
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Robert Heller wrote:
At Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:05:49 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Hi all,
I'm currently searching for a PCI modem that will be used to receive faxes. I've tried out a few modems but they all use conexant chipsets, which need out-of-tree kernel drivers and currently doesn't work here (kernel oops when the installation script modprobes the driver).
Does anyone know of a PCI modem that works out of the box with in-tree kernel drivers?
Does it *have* to be a PCI (internal) modem? Except for a few *very expensive* ones (3Com/US Robotics *used* to make one I think), they are all 'controllerless' modems (aka 'winmodems'). Controllerless modems are poorly support under Linux, and there is little or no motivation for the kernel developers to bother supporting them. It might actually be easier to get an old ISA modem card (off eBay), except modern computers don't have ISA busses anymore :-).
It would actually be cheaper (and far easier) to get an *external* RS232 modem. At worst you'll need a serial port card (Lava's PCI serial port cards are quite well supported). In effect the combination of a Lava PCI serial port card and a RS232 modem would be a PCI modem, although the 'modem' itself would be external.
Hi
It doesn't need to be a PCI modem, but I would prefer one because everything can be nicely tucked away than and it's less wiring. But if only oldskool external serial modems do the job I'll use that then.
Just to confirm, something like this one: http://www.usr-emea.com/products/p-dialup-product.asp?prod=hom-5631a&loc... will just work out of the box?
Thanks,
Glenn
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 15:37 +0200, RedShift wrote:
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Hi
It doesn't need to be a PCI modem, but I would prefer one because everything can be nicely tucked away than and it's less wiring. But if only oldskool external serial modems do the job I'll use that then.
Just to confirm, something like this one: http://www.usr-emea.com/products/p-dialup-product.asp?prod=hom-5631a&loc... will just work out of the box?
My preference is MultiTech. IIRC, many others on this list have also preferred them.
Thanks,
Glenn
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On Thu, Jul 23, 2009, William L. Maltby wrote:
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 15:37 +0200, RedShift wrote:
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Hi
It doesn't need to be a PCI modem, but I would prefer one because everything can be nicely tucked away than and it's less wiring. But if only oldskool external serial modems do the job I'll use that then.
Just to confirm, something like this one: http://www.usr-emea.com/products/p-dialup-product.asp?prod=hom-5631a&loc... will just work out of the box?
My preference is MultiTech. IIRC, many others on this list have also preferred them.
I will second that. We have been using Multitech external modems with HylaFAX since the early '90s with excellent results.
I have done extensive testing on many external modems, and found that most are basically worthless for unattended operations. The only ones I have found to be very reliable are Multitech and Telebit, and Telebit hasn't been around for a decade or so (although I have three WorldBlazers and a TrailBlazer on the shelf in the back).
I also strongly recommend against using internal modems as modems do get wedged from time to time requiring hardware resets. That's simple with external modems, but requires rebooting the machine with internals. External serial modems Just Work(tm) regardless of the operating systems.
Bill
Hi, all! I have downloaded from an ftp something like RHEL 5.3 ppc64 rpm's. Is there any way to make from them an installation iso?
Sincerely, Dmitry
I have downloaded from an ftp something like RHEL 5.3 ppc64 rpm's. Is there any way to make from them an installation iso?
why not just download the iso's from redhat with the valid subscription details you have?
Because the value of subscription is equal the value of my PlayStation 3.
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On 07/24/2009 11:32 AM, Dmitry Zaletnev wrote:
I have downloaded from an ftp something like RHEL 5.3 ppc64 rpm's. Is there any way to make from them an installation iso?
why not just download the iso's from redhat with the valid subscription details you have?
Because the value of subscription is equal the value of my PlayStation 3.
rhel ppc64 does not work on the playstation
didnt we already have this conversation earlier though ?
On 07/24/2009 11:32 AM, Dmitry Zaletnev wrote:
I have downloaded from an ftp something like RHEL 5.3 ppc64 rpm's. Is there any way to make from them an installation iso?
why not just download the iso's from redhat with the valid subscription details you have?
Because the value of subscription is equal the value of my PlayStation 3.
rhel ppc64 does not work on the playstation
didnt we already have this conversation earlier though ?
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Hi
It doesn't need to be a PCI modem, but I would prefer one because everything can be nicely tucked away than and it's less wiring. But if only oldskool external serial modems do the job I'll use that then.
My preference is MultiTech. IIRC, many others on this list have also preferred them.
Multi-Tech also has a line of PCI modems that work quite nicely. I have on in a Dell Itanium server using qpage to act as our notification pager for Nagios using a TAP-to-SMS gateway.
Works like a champ. noe that this is PCI and not PCIexpress. A lot of new servers do not have a pure PCI slot in them anymore.
At Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:37:18 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Robert Heller wrote:
At Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:05:49 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Hi all,
I'm currently searching for a PCI modem that will be used to receive faxes. I've tried out a few modems but they all use conexant chipsets, which need out-of-tree kernel drivers and currently doesn't work here (kernel oops when the installation script modprobes the driver).
Does anyone know of a PCI modem that works out of the box with in-tree kernel drivers?
Does it *have* to be a PCI (internal) modem? Except for a few *very expensive* ones (3Com/US Robotics *used* to make one I think), they are all 'controllerless' modems (aka 'winmodems'). Controllerless modems are poorly support under Linux, and there is little or no motivation for the kernel developers to bother supporting them. It might actually be easier to get an old ISA modem card (off eBay), except modern computers don't have ISA busses anymore :-).
It would actually be cheaper (and far easier) to get an *external* RS232 modem. At worst you'll need a serial port card (Lava's PCI serial port cards are quite well supported). In effect the combination of a Lava PCI serial port card and a RS232 modem would be a PCI modem, although the 'modem' itself would be external.
Hi
It doesn't need to be a PCI modem, but I would prefer one because everything can be nicely tucked away than and it's less wiring. But if only oldskool external serial modems do the job I'll use that then.
Just to confirm, something like this one: http://www.usr-emea.com/products/p-dialup-product.asp?prod=hom-5631a&loc... will just work out of the box?
Yes it will. I downloaded the PDF and the magic incantation 'RS-232' was there.
Thanks,
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It doesn't need to be a PCI modem, but I would prefer one because everything can be nicely tucked away than and it's less wiring. But if only oldskool external serial modems do the job I'll use that then.
Just to confirm, something like this one: http://www.usr-emea.com/products/p-dialup-product.asp?prod=hom-5631a&loc... will just work out of the box?
There are/were two products for unix faxing - mgetty and hylafax, so check out their hardware compatibility lists.
But if only oldskool external serial modems do the job I'll use that then.
I wouldn't dis external modems. One of the largest ISP's in Western Canada, Telus, uses 56kbps USRobotics modems for out of band maintenance and repair on their commercial network equipment. I have six Telus modems hanging around the four offices I manage.
That says something about the "oldskool." :-)
HylaFax.org's list of Analog/POTS SoftModems has a list of winmodems mixed in with just plain software. (Digital Modems are for ISDN / T1 phone circuits, not home). So you may want to ask their mailing list and chat room.
Keeping in mind that hardware that works for one type of softmodem project (voice) may not work for another (faxing). Linux Gazette has an article on a $10 dollaer Linux Answering Machine that says that "Intel 537-based modem (softmodem)" works. A "PCI slot that does not share interrupts" is very important bc it will generate thousands of interrupts.
External modems allow you to reset the modem without resetting the entire pc.
On 7/23/09, RedShift redshift@pandora.be wrote:
Hi all,
I'm currently searching for a PCI modem that will be used to receive faxes. I've tried out a few modems but they all use conexant chipsets, which need out-of-tree kernel drivers and currently doesn't work here (kernel oops when the installation script modprobes the driver).
Does anyone know of a PCI modem that works out of the box with in-tree kernel drivers?
Thanks,
Glenn
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RedShift wrote:
Does anyone know of a PCI modem that works out of the box with in-tree kernel drivers?
I use a couple of unbranded £3.99 sort of modems, the way to go about it is to find out what chipsets are used in the modem and then verify that the modem is indeed a real hardware modem.
Connextant is one company that makes quite a lot of the chipsets used over the last 4 - 5 years, but they have many s/w modem too - so make sure you buy into the right thing.
btw, most pcmcia modems work fine - and its not hard getting a pci hosted pcmcia socket on ebay these days. Depends on what you are trying to get.
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