[oss-devel] softmodems

[François Revol]

> >> I have also been wondering about MC97 modem support, it should be
> >> possible to publish tty devices from them I suppose. [...]
> >> Even ALSA is supposed (I never tried) to support my ATI IXP modem 
> > > but I
> >> never dig the code.
> >>     
> >
> > MC97 devices work like AC97 devices and are exposed as a plain 8 
> > Khz PCM
> > sound devices.  The actual modulator/demodulator stuff is done in a
> > userspace application, such as linmodem (which uses the OSS API).
> >   
> OSS lacks support for modems in drivers like ICH. The reason has been 
> lack of suitable test hardware.
>  However that support could be added in few days if somebody is 
> interested in working with softmodems.

Well I have one on my laptop, but I must admin I hardly need it, and I 
usually can cope with using it from XP.

François.