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| overxtended Tl Posts: 3 Australia | Posted - 2/15/2004 12:54:43 AM    Am looking for drivers for a new Lucent 6659 internal modem to run on Windows 64bit beta. Have just built a Athlon 64 bit bases system and trying to get all to work. This is the last piece of the puzzle. Any & all help appreciated. Thanx spellin by alians |
| charles Tl Posts: 5879 USA | Posted - 2/15/2004 1:32:40 PM Edited by - charles on 2/15/2004 1:49:43 PM |
| EdSchulz Tl Posts: 37 USA | Posted - 2/19/2004 5:56:07 AM Lucent never made modems, only the chips that make them work. What are the markings on the Lucent chip(s) on your modem? That might help us identify what you have. Ed Schulz |
| overxtended Tl Posts: 3 Australia | Posted - 2/22/2004 12:50:51 AM It's a Netcomm modem, made in Australia. No 64 bit drivers available, hence my reference to the chipset. Hoping a generic driver of some king may work. Thanx for your interest. |
| charles Tl Posts: 5879 USA | Posted - 2/22/2004 2:49:50 AM What is the modem model,can not find any info on the modem that you have listed. The modem should work on this system.Might also look into there PCI-X modems. PCI-X (Peripheral Component Interconnect Extended) is a computer bus technology (the "data pipes" between parts of a computer) that increases the speed that data can move within a computer from 66 MHz to 133 MHz. PCI-X doubles the speed and amount of data exchanged between the computer processor and peripherals. With the current PCI design, one 64-bit bus runs at 66 MHz and additional buses move 32 bits at 66 MHz or 64 bits at 33 MHz. The maximum amount of data exchanged between the processor and peripherals using the current PCI design is 532 MB per second. With PCI-X, one 64-bit bus runs at 133 MHz with the rest running at 66 MHz, allowing for a data exchange of 1.06 GB per second. PCI-X is backwards-compatible, meaning that you can, for example, install a PCI-X card in a standard PCI slot but expect a decrease in speed to 33 MHz. You can also use both PCI and PCI-X cards on the same bus but the bus speed will run at the speed of the slowest card. PCI-X is more fault tolerant than PCI. For example, PCI-X is able to reinitialize a faulty card or take it offline before computer failure occurs. SCINTRA602 V.92 2 ports SCINTRA604 V.92 4 ports SCINTRA606 V.92 6 ports SCINTRA608 V.92 8 ports PCI-X installation requires seperate drivers). They are also backward compatible with normal PCI slots.SCINTR Note these are server modems with Exar enhanced UART • 64 Byte transmit and receive FIFOs Edited by - charles on 2/22/2004 3:13:46 AM |
| charles Tl Posts: 5879 USA | Posted - 2/22/2004 3:25:57 AM Might want to read this also to clear up what this chip can do and the AMD Athlon 64-Bit Processors mark up.Cheak what chipset you have and note the running of microsoft software on this Processors. This chipset will support bot 32 and 64 bit apps. http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/amd_64_article.php Also visit the Overclockers Club Forum and they can give you alot of help on this,these guys are good on these processors. Edited by - charles on 2/22/2004 3:45:11 AM |
| overxtended Tl Posts: 3 Australia | Posted - 2/22/2004 1:35:29 PM Thanx guys, Finally got a reply from Netcomm (it's a 5560 in-modem BTW), sent me this link and some instructions on totally removing any installed drivers for the modem at present. http://www.agere.com/support/client/modem_driver2.html Haven't tried it yet, but looks promising. Am a member of the overclockers forum, they sent me here?? Have fun, Bernie |
| charles Tl Posts: 5879 USA | Posted - 2/24/2004 2:47:00 AM Some good reading here on this cpu and others. http://www.legge40.freeserve.co.uk/CPU.htm |
| EdSchulz Tl Posts: 37 USA | Posted - 2/24/2004 6:15:11 AM The Agere Systems driver for the host-controller modem (Mars, 1648C) is 32-bit, and will not run on a 64-bit system. There are no plans for a 64-bit Mars driver. We do not yet have a 64-bit driver for the soft modems (SV92P PCI, Scorpio AC-link), but a patient user might reasonably expect one in the future. That's not a promise, and it's not a preannouncement. Ed Schulz |
| bawbcat Tl Posts: 9 USA | Posted - 3/17/2004 9:52:42 AM Ed, Thanks for your input here. Off the record, if a 64-bit driver is not planned for the Mars chipset, then might a patient user reasonably infer that this chipset is nearing end of life? |
| EdSchulz Tl Posts: 37 USA | Posted - 3/17/2004 11:29:10 AM In the same sense that my colleagues working on ISDN in 1982 thought that dial modems in general were nearing end of life, then I guess you could say that's the case for Mars. But customers are shipping every month, and if problems show up, we fix them. [from Monty Python] "I'm not dead yet!" Porting to a 64-bit system is more of an enhancement than a bug fix, though. Ed Schulz |
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