Hi Laurent,
>Hmmm, I think you have been mistaken. There has been a "real" hardware modem
>in the last models of PowerBook, including the Titanium G4. The last
>"software" model was found in the Centris/Quadra 660AV and the Quadra 840AV.
>Those 2 Macintosh were using the GeoPort adapter, with a software modem.
From the debian-ppc list is this post on the pro's & cons
from Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh_at_kernel.crashing.org>
>The new model of titanium powerbook was just released by Apple, it
>isn't as well supported as the older one yet, here's what you get with
>my current rsync kernel (2.4.16-ben0)
>- Display: framebuffer works well on LCD, no CRT output support yet
>XFree requires compiling XFree CVS 4.1.99 top of tree for accel
>to work. S-video out not supported yet. Fortunately, ATI provides
>infos so things are beeing improved.
>- Airport: works
>- Ethernet: Works in 10/100, gigabit need some infos on the PHY chip
>we don't (yet) have
>- Sound: Works with a few problems (volume control is screwy, plus the
>usual small dmasound endian problems, beeing worked on)
>- Sleep: Doesn't work reliably yet, beeing worked on
>- PCMCIA: not tested yet; should work
>- Firewire: works
>- USB: works
>- Internal modem: doesn't work, and may never work in linux since
>Apple had the brain dead idea of using a softmodem in this model
>(except if you get conexant to release a linux/ppc driver).
>- irda: might work, untested (the serial HW is the same as before,
>however the IR transceiver might be different)
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