January 22, 2004
1,110% Markup on Digium FXO Card
The $99.95 Digium Wildcard X100P single port FXO card is nothing more than an Intel chipset Voice/Data/Fax PCI modem, available from Copmuter Geeks for $8.99
joakimsen said, "They change the PCI vendor ID via a resistor, simply modify one byte of the source code and it will detect it as the X100P." Realty Dan adds, "Looking at your modified source code, the change from 0x8085 to 0x8086 [in zaptel/wcfxo.c] appears to be the one byte you referred to earlier. The resistor change was apparently used to produce the revised "pseudo-vendor" code in the much more expensive Digium card. This was an obvious move to make sure the cheaper card would not be recognized and, therefore, unusable. Hardly a way for a company to gain support and customer loyalty."
Greetings from Italy!
I've buyed two intel cards from geeks, I'll try to make them work with asterisk, did anyone tried yet
Only two sites (this one included) report this solution, but I think that thay are right....
http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/remark,8931677
http://www.amigo.com.tw/products/modem/AMIIA92_IE92.htm
Posted by: at February 13, 2004 08:19 PMI'm sorry but you are very wrong. Digium does not sell intel modem cards. It just so happens one can modify the intel cards to look like a X100P, but Digium sells Motorolla based card that is not a modem.
Posted by: Me at February 16, 2004 01:48 AMSorry to disappoint you 'me'... but they do... the X100P is a motorola chipset based modem, the X101P is the "revised version", but is the intel modem... they chose these to take advantage of hte full duplex voice of these modems... This is fact.
Posted by: sorphin at March 5, 2004 01:03 PM