[Asterisk-Users] Is the X100P a WinModem?

[Andrew Joakimsen]

I have modems that are IDENTICAL to the X101P card, same modem/part
numbers and FCC ID, yet they do not work.

Anyone have any clues as how to "correct" this issue? When doing an
lspci both cards show up as "TigerJet Networks 320 128K" or something
along those lines....


> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Ethan
> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 4:18 PM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Is the X100P a WinModem?
> 
> pamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp)
> 
> 
> > Unless the card happens to contain a dsp, or interface chip whose
> > specifications are public you might as well give up.
> 
> True. Especially with the DMCA.
> 
> > This is a similar problem to having an ethernet card and a driver,
but
> > expecting a different card with a different chip on it to just work
with
> > your driver. (Obviously you totally missed out on this sort of fun
in
> the
> > early days of Linux/FreeBSD)
> 
> Nope, I remember Yggdrisl Linux, Linux kernel .97, and FreeBSD 2.2.1.
> 
> > Having hardware I would say is not even half the battle - whether it
is
> > commercial or custom, often the designs are based closely on the
> > manufacturer's app notes, so designs using the same core chip are
often
> > interchangable. Having software that makes the hardware work for
your
> > application is the hard part since often there is no reference
design at
> > all for this from the manufacturer, let alone one that will work
with
> Linux
> > or FreeBSD.
> 
> Right, but why reinvent the wheel. If you need a card to do something
and
> there is something on the market, you can write drivers for it and use
it.
> There is a fast ethernet card for the Silicon Graphics Indigo^2 that
is
> made by Phobos. Wait, actually it is an off the shelf 3com EISA fast
> ethernet card with Phobos drivers, and a reprogrammed identifier...
> because SGI boxes aren't as popular, you end up paying a couple grand
for
> the driver.
> 
> > Over the summer Atheros (makes the radio modules in the dlink and
> linksys
> > wireless stuff) took the groundbreaking step to release a "sort of"
open
> > source driver for their hardware, but this is not the norm at all.
Take
> > another example of ATI vs NVidia and compare the driver
availability.
> 
> Yea I was looking at using the dlink USB radio tuner on a different
> project of mine. Speaking of, we are running 10 PCI sound cards in a
> single FreeBSD machine... people on here have mentioned this... we use
a
> PICMG SBC on a backplane with 19 PCI slots. Got two fo them for $125
off
> of ebay. So there are solutions for tons of PCI FXO cards, but a
channel
> bank would be cleaner.
> 
> pictures:
> 
> http://users.757.org/~ethan/pics/geek/soundcard_champion/
> 
> > So in summary, unless you happen to have some pipeline of
information
> > coming from a winmodem manufacturer, making it into a linmodem let
alone
> > another specialized telephony device is anything but trivial, unless
it
> > happens to be based on exactly the same chips and reference designs
as
> the
> > software you have is for.
> 
> Hmmmm
> 
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