hi modem men, if you have a VIA southbridge and either PCTEL or Agere Scorpio modems, consider yourself lucky ! I have confirmed, what s.o. else already found with his laptop: pci primary 1106:3068 AC'97 on VIA controller subsystem 7321:1071 Mitac model # 7321 laptop this subsystem is typically an PCTEL based Askey modem, but others work too. Just make sure that all necessary line chokes are integrated with the assembly to the phone line plug, when you exchange parts between 2 laptops. Sometimes some chokes reside on the mainboard, sometimes on a subassembly within the mini-pci-bay. the number 7321:1071 about the subsystem is somewhat unspecific for the purpose of modem hardware identification. I took out the PCTEL chip based mini-pci modem from my Mitac 7321 and inserted a different mini-pci modem with Agere Scorpio chipset, like this http://xmodem.org/chipsets/agere/agere_LU97.html funny enough, the subsystem readings remained the same. Only in Windows, PCTEL's HSP56MR software (modem) was not happy anymore. Coolly enough, slmodemd does not care much about trifle stuff like that and presses on regardless. It gave me nice 54 kbps CONNECTs. An example of a modem with PCTEL silicon is Askey V1456VQL-P1 (Int) An example of a modem with Agere Scorpio AC97 silicon is Askey 1456VQL4A http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/bigarch/archive-sixth.back/msg00358.html So the folks at xmodem can mark agere LU97 scorpio as "supported by Linux" http://xmodem.org/chipsets/dips/roster.html greetings to all "quixotic souls" ;-) F --- http://www.linux-club.de/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=92686&start=0 However, Olive Essert from Belgium sends feedback to Modemsite indicating that the Linux driver from Smartlink's website (slmodem-2.9.9.tar.gz) works with the Lucent/Agere Scorpio modem that came in a Toshiba notebook. This is possible because the hardware in both Agere's AMR modem and Smartlink's - the silicon DAA - are the same component. (As the softmodem name implies, all modem functions except the physical interface to the computer and phone line are performed outside the modem itself by software running on the PC). And, Gennaro from Italy reports success using the Smartlink Linux driver on Linux Slackware 10.0 (2.4.26) on an Acer Travelmate 740. --- http://listing.driveragent.com/pci/1106/3068/*
