Internal Modems are not really true modems, in the sense that they use software instruction set to work... whereas external modems have firmware installed onto the chipset itslelf...
For everyone's record:
Much more information or driver kits for particular chipsets can be obtained at:
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*www.heby.de/ltmodem Lucent/Agere modem resources Manufacturer names of Lucent or Xircom may be displayed by the query "lspci -vv". These may be supported. The Lucent AMR modems are definitely not supported.
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*developer.intel.com/design/modems/support/drivers.htm Intel HaM driver
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*www-124.ibm.com/acpmodem/ IBM's Mwave modem driver for Thinkpad 600E and newer laptops. This is new modem card format, neither ISA or PCI.
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*linmodems.technion.ac.il/pctel-linux/ Jan's PCTel Resources
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*www.linuxant.com/drivers/ Linuxant offers the latest and greatest general purpose Conexant drivers for Linux.
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*walbran.org/sean/linux/stodolsk/linux111.zip Driver for ESS ISA Modems. Only for earlier 2.2 kernel versions.
* For 3COM/US Robotics Inc. winmodems, drivers were NOT available as of May, 2001.
For more information visit :
www.linmodems.org
You can also download and install the soft modem driver form the motorola website
< *www.motorola.com/softmodem/driver.htm >