hi, http://xmodem.org/chipsets/agere/agere_LU97.html these modules "daughter cards" are manufactured in a compatible fashion, at least as long as they belong to the same system such as AC'97 / MC'97 modems. That makes sense: mfs of the modules such as Askey can offer to laptop makers a variety of modem brands. If one softmodem is much better than another, say agere is better than pctel HSP, a laptop maker just plugs in the agere modules and sells more laptops. This opportunity also motivates the board makers to design plugs for exchangeable AC97 modem modules. On my laptop I could demonstrate above. http://hardware4linux.info/module/slamr/ here you see the different AC'97 controllers, that slmodemd supports. maybe, at some point one should drop the "sl" in slmodem. ;-) greetings, F
