Re: [hylafax-users] multi-modems solution

[Lee Howard <faxguy@deanox.com>]

At 03:26 PM 7/13/01 +0100, procadas@creditus.pt wrote:

>avoiding the problem of pci modems(the infamous winmodems)

Note that not all PCI modems are winmodems.  Anything using the 3Com
"Kermit" chipset (3CP5610) and the Lucent "Venus" chipset (MultiTech
MT5634ZPX-PCI) are not winmodems and will work with a simple 'setserial'
command.  There are also other PCI serial chipsets that I have not tried
that are reported to work this way.

However, per testing and reports, the LT "Linmodem" drivers and the PCTel
"Linmodem" drivers also work fine for faxing.  I question the kernel
stability with these drivers as I haven't put them into a stressful
environment.  However, you can only have one LT Linmodem per system.  I
don't know about the PCTel.

Regardless... I've been able to acheive 5-modem systems by using two
external modems on the motherboard's serial ports (IRQs are shared with ISA
modems, so you can interchange external modems with two internal ISA
modems) and then three internal PCI modems (you may be able to use four).
If you're looking to do anything more than 5 or 6 modems on a system, I
would *highly* recommend using Comtrol Rocketmodems (or Rocketports with a
bunch of external modems).  Note that Brooktrout fax cards *do* *not* work
with HylaFAX or any other software that didn't pay them a sum of money to
incorporate their drivers into the fax software.

Lee.



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