Agere WinModem 56k on Thinkpad - Working!

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On 02/25/2008 07:51 PM, sktsee wrote:

> 
> Just curious, but does your Agere modem have the Mars DSP chip? The PCI
> ids for these models would be in the range of 11c1:0440 thru 11c1:045d.
> (might also have Xircom vendor id of 115d:) This series has a supported
> driver in linux that works with SMP capable kernels, unlike the ltmodem
> an ltserial driver. If your modem pci id falls into the range listed
> above, and you want try out the "martian" driver with the generic
> kernel, you can get it here:
> http://martian.barrelsoutofbond.org/
> 
> I've used it since feisty and it works well pretty well.
> 

Thanks! I'll look into that and give it a try.
The laptop is showing 11c1:0449. The one in my desktop is showing
11c1:044f (can't get that one to break dialtone yet - works fine in
WinXPPro).