Modem identification and faxing

[pwabrahams]

I'm running Kubuntu Intrepid on an Acer laptop. The laptop has a phone jack, and from running Vista (ugh!) I've determined that it does have a faxmodem. But how can I locate it and make Linux aware of it? lspci shows nothing relevant. I tried faxaddmodem but it can't find anything. And lshw | grep modem
comes up empty-handed also.

[Snowhog]

Re: Modem identification and faxing

It's almost a certainty that it's a winmodem (soft(ware) modem), not a physical modem.

[pwabrahams]

Re: Modem identification and faxing

Yes, it's probably a winmodem. But where do I go from there? And how do I even determine which winmodem it is? On my desktop machine, lspci identifies the winmodem -- but on my laptop, it doesn't.

[Snowhog]

Re: Modem identification and faxing

From within Vista, what information does it report about the modem?

[pwabrahams]

What Vista says

According to Vista, it's an "HD Audio Soft Data Fax Modem with Smart CP". That's probably not very helpful.

[Teunis]

Re: Modem identification and faxing

Had you typed this into google you'd have found quite a bit of information

The way I interpret it is this is a Conexant modem residing in the Audio card and (a year ago) there was a commercial driver available from http://www.linuxant.com

Have a look on the following site and specifically for the utility called Scanmodem:
http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/

This might help you to further narrow down what type of modem this is and possibly finding a free solution for your modem.