2002-04-25 The Conexant HCF driver now supports PCI chipsets with SmartDAA. 2002-04-09 Posted a link to the beta drivers for the Intel 536EP chipset. 2002-03-06 MBSI has posted a page for their beta program for the Conexant HCF Linmodem driver. Thanks to Ayhan Isik (maintainer of the Turkish version of this page). See the README file for details. The current driver will not work with older Rockwell HCF modems (PCI ID=127A) or with the newer SmartDAA modems (yet). 2002-02-06 Added a link to the End-User Agreement page for Conexant's official HSF Linux driver. The HCF driver is promised "soon" (probably May 2002). The agreement page is at http://www.conexant.com/customer/md_driverassistance.html. Thanks to Poisti for the heads up. 2001-11-23 Added a link to Conexant's FAQ regarding the release of Linux drivers at the end of this year for the HSF (soft) modem chipsets. In the meantime, see visit the Beta development page at MBSI. Thanks to G.Schurink for the heads up! 2001-03-05 Dorian Araneda, Product Engineer for the Intel HaM mode team, has released a final version of the Linux "Linmodem" driver for the MD563X (HaM) chipsets based on the MD5628D digital signal processor. 2001-02-12 The source for the IBM ACP Linmodem driver has been released under the GNU GPL. This means it could be included in the Linux kernel source in the future. 2000-12-20 Added a link to IBM's Linmodem driver development page for the IBM Thinkpad 600E. Thanks to Mike Sullivan of IBM for the link! 2000-11-25 Jean Gomes has pointed out that the linmodems.org gang has made some progress on making the Lucent LT Linmodem driver more independent of the kernel version. 2000-09-22 There appears to be a new Linmodem driver for Conexant/Rockwell HSF (SoftK56) modems. It was designed for the Olitec 56K V.2, but with a little tweaking, it may work with other modems, too. Thanks to Denis Havlik for the link. 2000-09-15 Added link to Lectron Linux support page and added Lectron I56LVP-F3 as a possible PCI hardware modem (Lucent Venus chipset). 2000-09-09 For those of you keeping score, Ambient Technologies (previously the modem division of Cirrus Logic) is now Intel® Modem Silicon Operation. Catchy name! 2000-08-13 There is a new Linmodem Driver available for the ESS ES56V-I TeleDrive chipset. This driver may also work for close family members ES56-I and ES56T-I, which share the ES2890S DSP. Modems affected could include the SmartLink 5634BEW and the E-Tech PC56EX. Thanks to CdStrife@aol.com for finding this driver! 2000-07-22 There is a new Linmodem driver available for the ESS ES56T-PI TeleDrive chipset. This driver may also work for close family members ES56-PI and ES56V-PI, which share the ES2898S DSP. Likely candidates, for example, would be the Archtek Smartlink 5634PEW or the Pine FM-3621. See the Linmodem table below for downloads. Thanks to Andrew Wettstein for finding this driver! 2000-07-19 Ambient (formerly the Cirrus Logic modem division, now part of Intel) is working on Linux drivers for their MD563X HaM controllerless PCI modem chipset. The drivers are still in beta and will be posted on www.ambient.com some time in the future. 2000-07-09 If you own a Zoom 2919L or 2949L, there is a flash upgrade to add call-waiting detection available from Zoom. 2000-06-29 The Digitan DS560-558 PCI hardware modem is now available as the Zoom 2920. 2000-06-23 There is a new PCI hardware modem available from Archtek: Model 5634PCV. It is based on the TOPIC chipset. They have posted a simple /dev/ttyS2 installation program here. 2000-05-29 If you would like to see how I fare at shopping for modems at retail computer stores, check out the ROUGH GUIDE section. My latest stop is CompUSA. If there is a chain store in your town, I encourage submissions for posting: try to keep it down to about a page of text. Let's see if we can make this work... 2000-04-08 GVC is now selling the Well PCI hardware modem under their own name. They include a simple utility to autodetect the modem. If anyone is using the FM-56PCI-TP or GVC 0321, please let me know (gromitkc@idir.net). 2000-02-25 The state of Linux serial device support (e.g., modems) for Linux 2.4 can be found here. In particular, Ted Ts'o is working on direct Linux support for PCI modems. 2000-02-17 Added a link to Digicom's Linux support info on digicom.it. Thanks to Paolo Farinelli for the link. 2000-02-08 To support the effort to make Linux 2.4 fully PnP-capable for modems, Andrey Panin [pazke@orbita.don.sitek.net] is collecting Plug-and-Play IDs. He requests that you send him copy of your isapnp.conf file to add to his database. 1999-12-30 Hooray for the FCC! By popular request, they will continue to issue modem registration notices in plain text (instead of MS Word). 1999-12-13 Klavs Pedersen sent this hint on how to set up a 3Com 3CP5610 (PCI) modem. 1999-12-01 Lucent has provided linmodems.org with a binary-only kernel module for PCI LT Winmodems. Apparently, it's buggy but it works. See the "Linmodem driver" table below for details.