Currently available internal PCI hardware modems?

As copiously written elsewhere, FreeBSD works best with
hardware modems, not WinModems / LinModems.

I need to fit an internal PCI fax/modem (for various reasons
an external modem is not an option, so sorry if you were
about to suggest that).

However, I'm having difficulty identifying which internal
modems are genuine hardware modems.  Internet searches and
manufacturers' specifications are inconclusive (PCI cards
that are called "hardware" modems turn out not to
be, or are no longer available, etc).  Contacting
manufacturers' tech support either yields no reply, or again
inconclusive responses.

So, my question please is: can anyone provide details (eg
manufacturer, model number, retailer) of any genuine
hardware PCI fax/modems, that are currently available (March
2008), and preferably available in UK.  If you have actually
used one with FreeBSD and can confirm that it works, that
would be even better!  (NB the 'fax' part of fax/modem is
important, as that's actually the main reason for needing
it!)

(Or if there is a webpage somewhere with this info already,
a link to it would be great!  As above, my googling (and
searching of this mailing list) hasn't yielded anything
definitive)

[To clarify: by "hardware" PCI modem, I mean a PCI
card that has all modem control functions on the card, and
requires no software control at the modem level from the
computer.  To the computer and o/s, the card just looks like
a 'tty' serial port, exactly the same as a normal serial
port to which an external modem would be connected (except
in this case the modem is embedded in the PCI card).  So one
just runs modem/fax/whatever applications (or even a raw
terminal emulator!) that send 'AT' commands etc to this
port].

Many thanks for any help,
Scott
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On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:09:56 +0000, in
sentex.lists.freebsd.hardware
you wrote:

>As copiously written elsewhere, FreeBSD works best with
hardware modems, not WinModems / LinModems.

Hi,
we use a USR 5610C 

uc0pci0:8:0:  class=0x070002 card=0x00d312b9
chip=0x100812b9 rev=0x01
hdr=0x00
    vendor   = '3COM Corp, Modem Division (Formerly US
Robotics)'
    device   = 'TL16CFM700PGE / 980C / 42A30KW PCI Serial
Controller
(for modem)d'
    class    = simple comms


puc0: <US Robotics (3Com) 3CP5609 PCI 16550 Modem>
port 0xe400-0xe407
irq 12 at device 8.0 on pci0
sio4: <US Robotics (3Com) 3CP5609 PCI 16550 Modem> on
puc0

Works well on RELENG_6 and RELENG_7.  One small patch we run
with is
below

--- sio_pci.c   Wed Mar 26 20:53:47 2008
+++ sio_pci.c.new       Wed Mar 26 20:54:05 2008
 -68,7
+68,6 
 };
 
 static struct pci_ids pci_ids[] = {
-       { 0x100812b9, "3COM PCI FaxModem", 0x10
},
        { 0x2000131f, "CyberSerial (1-port)
16550", 0x10 },
        { 0x01101407, "Koutech IOFLEX-2S PCI Dual Port
Serial", 0x10
},
        { 0x01111407, "Koutech IOFLEX-2S PCI Dual Port
Serial", 0x10
},

	---Mike
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I have a CTR-21 (with Agere SV92PL-T00 / SV 04395 chipset)
Fax Modem,
but could not get it work under 6.2 release.

Does anyone know if this modem will work under 6.3 or 7.0
release?

TIA,
-Jin

mikesentex.net wrote:

>On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:09:56 +0000, in
sentex.lists.freebsd.hardware
>you wrote:
>
>  
>
>>As copiously written elsewhere, FreeBSD works best
with hardware modems, not WinModems / LinModems.
>>    
>>
>
>Hi,
>we use a USR 5610C 
>
>uc0pci0:8:0:  class=0x070002 card=0x00d312b9
chip=0x100812b9 rev=0x01
>hdr=0x00
>    vendor   = '3COM Corp, Modem Division (Formerly US
Robotics)'
>    device   = 'TL16CFM700PGE / 980C / 42A30KW PCI
Serial Controller
>(for modem)d'
>    class    = simple comms
>
>
>puc0: <US Robotics (3Com) 3CP5609 PCI 16550 Modem>
port 0xe400-0xe407
>irq 12 at device 8.0 on pci0
>sio4: <US Robotics (3Com) 3CP5609 PCI 16550 Modem>
on puc0
>
>Works well on RELENG_6 and RELENG_7.  One small patch we
run with is
>below
>
>--- sio_pci.c   Wed Mar 26 20:53:47 2008
>+++ sio_pci.c.new       Wed Mar 26 20:54:05 2008
> -68,7 +68,6 
> };
> 
> static struct pci_ids pci_ids[] = {
>-       { 0x100812b9, "3COM PCI FaxModem",
0x10 },
>        { 0x2000131f, "CyberSerial (1-port)
16550", 0x10 },
>        { 0x01101407, "Koutech IOFLEX-2S PCI Dual
Port Serial", 0x10
>},
>        { 0x01111407, "Koutech IOFLEX-2S PCI Dual
Port Serial", 0x10
>},
>
>  
>

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