Non-winmodem

[Bovon]

Unless some have come along in the last year or two, all PCI modems were winmodems. There were a very few winmodems that were ISA, but these were few and far in between. If you have the disk with the drivers, look for the .inf file. it will open in notepad, and may say winmodem if it is one. I have seen some .inf files that actually said it was a winmodem.

[QCTECH1]

How can you tell if a modem is a Non-winmodem?

[wyvrn]

Works in Dos or linux (some winmodems work in linux though). If the box says it requires Windows, it is a soft modem.

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[This message has been edited by wyvrn (edited 04-30-2001).]

[ctaylor]

External modems are amost always "real modems" and not winmodems.

ISA modems are almost always "real modems"

Again, any modem that ships with DOS drivers is also a "real modem"

USRobotics modems usually cost more because they manufacture (generally speaking) "real modems" which handle all the signal processing through hardware.

Winmodems, on the other hand, off load lots of hardware processing to be handled by software drivers inside of a Windows OS.

[Long Haired Hippie Phreek]

Some of the older PCI modems are hard modems, check the chip, go to the maker's website, and check for non-windows and non-linux drivers. If it is over 1 year old, it most likely will not have linux drivers if it is a soft modem. If you cannot figure out who makes it, it is software.

[DK]

Adding to the fray here.

There are three different types of modems under the v90 protocol:
1. DSP with controller (ISA and PCI)
2. DSP without controller (ISA and PCI)
3. Winmodem (ISA and PCI)

* DSP Digital Signal Processing

The DSP is the most important part of the modem considering it is using floating point math to handel the modulation demodutation of the signal processing.

The controller function is integer math which most computer systems can handel very quickly.

To answer the orignal question, you need to look on the the device itself and look for a name. If there is no name name look for a FCC ID number then go here
http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/

You maybe able to find out who manufactured the device in question.

In some cases under device manager it will say "winmodem".