Re: [hylafax-users] how to setup/drive more than one same PCImodem together?

["support" <support@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Kite.

The linuxant driver supports V.17 (14.4kbps) but not V.34 (33.6kbps).
Here's an overview of V.34;

http://www.mainpine.com/whyv34.html

We recently did some tests with a variety of different winmodems and none of
them worked correctly with multiple boards.  We did not test with Linux but
I suspect that the results will be the same (basically, most of the
winmodems contain proprietary code which was never designed to run multiple
instances).  I would suggest you ask your question on the linmodems mail
list (there are some very knowledgeable people contributing).

You may well have more success by using external serial modems and a
multi-port serial card.

Regards

Andrew
-----Original Message-----
From: Kite Lau [mailto:kitelau@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 27 October 2005 14:01
To: support@xxxxxxxxxxxx; hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [hylafax-users] how to setup/drive more than one same PCImodem
together?

在 2005-10-27四的 12:23 +0100，support写道： 
> Hi Kite.
> 
> The 536ep is a controller less 'winmodem'.  As far as I'm aware the 
> only winmodem driver which supports multiple instances is the linuxant 
> driver
> (http://www.linuxant.com/) but this only supports conexant modems at 
> V.17 rates.  For a definitive answer about your modem I would suggest 
> that you ask your question on the linmodems mailing list
(http://www.linmodems.org/).
> 
> Obviously, I'm going to suggest that you purchase a full hardware 
> multiport modem for this type of application..... but then I am a little
biased !
> 
> Regards
> 
> ANDREW RINALDI
> Mainpine Support Manager
> USA +1 718 701 2422 | Asia/Europe +44 1225 436137 
> andrew.rinaldi@xxxxxxxxxxxx | www.mainpine.com
> 
Hi Andrew,

Thanks for your sharing of information which is very helpful.

Since the budget is tight, I might not be able to buy a mutiport modem. 

Driver from linuxant.net seems promising if the driver performs in fairly
stable mode. If I buy a license from them, the modem will work in full
speed, right?

I also consider to buy several modems made of different chipset so that I
can setup the device nodes with different drivers. Do you think this is
feasible?

Thanks and Regards,

Kite






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