Blann All out information on Broadcom is below. The Dell support has never been updated. If you have a 14e4:4212 modem, it would be worth the amusement of trying support through a patched Smartlink slamr.ko driver, as there has been success with a similar Motorola modem kludge. But send us the ModemData.txt representing your current system with Broadcom modem. MarvS scanModem maintainer Vendor 14e4 is Broadcom http://www.broadcom.com/ , now focusing on broadband tools. 14e4:4212 is the PCI id of a BCM V.90 56k modem There is no support under 2.6.n kernels for the 14e4:4212 modems. There is a driver for 2.2.n kernels called BCOM_WAN_V20. Search for it at http://www.dell.com However the code has not been updated for some time. For 2.4 kernels, a fix by Giacomo Comes must be used. See : http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/archive-third/msg01652.html http://cengique.2y.net/~cengiz/BCMSM/ There are BCM Subsystems 14e4:4d64 serving under Intel ICH series softmodem con trollers. which are supported. Their AC97 codecs are BCM64 or SIL24. Kernels of version 2.6.6 or later are necessary. See success reports: http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/archive-fifth/msg02486.html http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/archive-fourth/msg03690.html http://oboc.ucdavis.edu/Marik/inspiron/ The support is typically achieved through the snd-intel8x0m driver, plus slmode md helper. On 4/29/07, blann <blann@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tried to download this from Dell as per instructions, but could not find it on their website. Perhaps they no longer carry it? Is there another source of the broadcom modem bcm4212 drover? Thanks blann@xxxxxxx
