Why waste a PCI slot? Get a USB modem like the Actiontec:

http://www.actiontec.com/products/modems/x-modem/dlx_overview.html
or
http://www.zoomtel.com/modemsna.html

Every company that can glue a chipset onto a PCI card has done so with
disastrous results.

http://808hi.com/56k/index.htm

If you value your time at more than $1.50 per hour, always buy a real
modem.


Jeff Northon





> >Hello, > >After discovering a few days ago that the oem PC-Tel
> software modem in my Cyrix 266 eMachine is not supported by NetBSD-1.5
> (thanks again to Kevin P. Neal and Mike Pelley), I bought another
> modem, which also perhaps doesn't work on NetBSD-1.5 i386 GENERIC: >
> >dmesg | grep 'AT&T' >AT&T Microelectronics LTMODEM at pci0 dev 19
> function 0 (not configured) > >The second modem is a Zoom 56K V.90 pci
> marked model 1120M.  The documentation says that this modem has a
> built in 16550 UART and a programmable flash rom DSP, which are the
> parts that I thought were "missing" from the PC-Tel modem.  As Mike
> Pelley suggested, I looked at pcidevs, which has vendor code 0x11c1
> for AT&T Microelectronics and almost fifty lines of product numbers
> for LTMODEM devices.  > >Under Windows 98, replacing my previous
> PC-Tel modem with the new Zoom modem resulted in an approximately 50%
> increase in download speed, even though both modems are nominally 56K.