> It's hard to tell. Conexant (formerly Rockwell) makes both the lame
> 'software' modems (winmodems), and actual useful hardware with
> a 16550 compatible interface. For example, the one in my
> Sony Vaio laptop is useless ("Conexant Systems SoftK56 PCI Software Modem"),
> but yours is mentioned as a 'hardware modem'.

No - Conexant do not make any 'proper' hardware modems.
They LOOK that way by the time you are running their
windows driver, but they are sort of 'squodgy'.

This may be why they are unwilling to give out any information
on these modems! 

See http://www.modem-help.freeserve.co.uk/ for a big list of
modems, their types, and forther explanations.

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk