From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Apr 18 12: 2:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.panix.com (mail3.panix.com [166.84.0.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 296F137B423 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 12:02:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from evenson@panix.com) Received: from panix6.panix.com (panix6.panix.com [166.84.0.231]) by mail3.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95828988A3; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 14:58:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from evenson@localhost) by panix6.panix.com (8.8.8/8.7.1/PanixN1.0) id OAA27058; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 14:58:05 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: panix6.panix.com: evenson set sender to evenson@panix.com using -f To: "Kevin Oberman" Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Modem on laptop... References: <200104131951.f3DJpkc01121@ptavv.es.net> From: Mark Evenson Date: 18 Apr 2001 14:58:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: "Kevin Oberman"'s message of "Fri, 13 Apr 2001 12:51:46 -0700" Message-ID: Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0805 (Gnus v5.8.5) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Kevin Oberman" writes: > Well, a bit of research shows that the WinModem on the 600E is based > on the IBM ACP mWave modem, not a Lucent. IBM has open-sourced drivers > for this chip available for Linux, so it might be possible to convert > it to run on FreeBSD, but I don't have the time to learn to do it, > let alone to do it. > > If anyone else is interested in looking into it, see: > http://http://oss.software.ibm.com/developer/opensource/linux/projects/mwave/ Not only did they release source, they actually made a "port" to FreeBSD on April 18. I don't have my ThinkPad to try out right now, but rest assured I will look at this tonight. The web page makes note that the driver is still GPL licensed, so it cannot be folded into the general FreeBSD release. Perhaps we could eventually put this in 'ports'? -- Mark Evenson "A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare to it now." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message