hi modem men, puppylinux 4.0 and earlier as well as slmodemd itself put to work smoothly the following hardware: pci primary 1106:3068 VIA Tech. AC'97 modem controller (vendor / device) MC`97 codec 1071:7321 Mitac laptop #7321 (subsystem number) the second line denotes a laptop by Mitac (=1071) with the model # 7321, which is printed on its bottom label too. The actual hardware is by PCTel in the shape of a pair of PCT303A / PCT303W chips, where PCT303A is the AC'97 interface and the other the DAA/codec silicon. They are packaged onto a mini-PCI modem card by Askey Inc., model "V1456VQL-P1". They can be bought at ebay, but I guess the actual phone socket on the laptop case may be individual in a laptop. in latest sidux / debian install go 100% smoothly. in special modem puppy v. 4.3.1 it would go smoothly, only that the hsf-modem driver take over the VIA southbridge keeping the slmodemd from working. You have to blacklist the all hsfmodem kernel-modules, then all is fine. To get good CONNECT 55666 and more with this softmodem, the set the country properly such as with AT+GCI=42 - remember 42 is "THE ANSWER" by deep thought. scanmodem has not yet stored the 1071:7321 combination, but a different 1071-Mitac-modem, probably the same Askey hardware in fact. scanmodem pointed out the hsfmodem southbridge conflict in a cogent manner. type amixer info to obtain further info. if you want to know about the windows .inf files, the manufacturers and driver versions, look them up at http://listing.driveragent.com/pci/1106/3068/* some ms updates can be downloaded right away. also check xmodem.org for news. on vintage PC's, slmodem makes itself felt by eating up around 10% of CPU cycles. But then, some new adaptors would not work on that machine at all for lack of cpu power. I hope that more codec's can be found to work with slmodem ! greetinx: Frank
