LT modem configuration

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On 2005-09-26, RW <rwisniew@gazeta.pl> wrote:[color=blue]
> I have something like that (dmesg)
> "AT&T/Lucent K56flex DSVD LTMODEM" rev 0x01 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 not
> configured"
> I would like to configure this device but I don't know how.[/color]

I do not know whether OpenBSD has ltmdm (check ports) but I do know
that, having had to use them, winmodems *suck* even if you do get them
to work. If you need to use a modem I suggest getting a real one with
its own controller.

Compared to the 5 EUR of not-a-modems a 50 EUR real modem may seem
hideously expensive, but only if you forget that winmodems are not
modems at all, and even then the hassle with them is not worth the
difference in price.

[color=blue]
> Can somebody help me ?[/color]

A winmodem really is not a modem at all, just a specialized soundcard,
leaving all the processing up to a bit of proprietary software that
as often as not isn't even available for linux. It is available for
ltmodems on i386, and with that you can build a shim for FreeBSD/i386
(I've used a lucent winmodem on that) and probably NetBSD/i386 and
OpenBSD/i386 as well, it's just that someone has to do it.

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