From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 6 4:12:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D365137B479 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 04:12:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.1]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.10.0/jtpda-5.3.3) with ESMTP id eA6CCMt26688 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 13:12:22 +0100 (CET) Received: from niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (root@niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.41]) by parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (8.9.1a/jtpda-5.3.1) with ESMTP id NAA25791 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 13:12:22 +0100 (MET) Received: from (talon@localhost) by niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (8.11.0/jtpda-5.3.1) id eA68X1860088 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 09:33:01 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 09:33:01 +0100 From: Michel TALON To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Supporting "winmodems" (was: PCI Modems Not Shown As Supported Hardware) Message-ID: <20001106093301.A60076@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3A063FAE.87E76566@micron.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3A063FAE.87E76566@micron.net>; from theskunk@micron.net on Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 09:20:46PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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