Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 09:33:01 +0100 From: Michel TALON <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Supporting "winmodems" (was: PCI Modems Not Shown As Supported Hardware) Message-ID: <20001106093301.A60076@lpthe.jussieu.fr> In-Reply-To: <3A063FAE.87E76566@micron.net>; from theskunk@micron.net on Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 09:20:46PM -0800 References: <3A063FAE.87E76566@micron.net>
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On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 09:20:46PM -0800, Anthony wrote: > Check out the site, if you like: http://linmodems.org/ > There is support for Lucent winmodems in Linux. However, this requires a fairly big linux kernel module, that has been written by Lucent themselves. The modem worked well under RedHat 6.2, but as soon as you upgrade to RedHat 7.0 you are stuck. The eternal problem of binary only drivers. Since Lucent do not release the source code, and since it is a very complicated code, i think there is no hope to get a FreeBSD driver soon. The modularized modern kernels are a good thing, but this allows to release binary only kernel modules. This is a plague which generalizes fast. For example you have the binary only driver for nVidia video cards and XFree 4 which at present, runs only in Linux. -- Michel TALON To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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