Date: 25 Sep 2002 19:03:48 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> Cc: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>, Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, Paolo Pisati <p.pisati@oltrelinux.com>, FreeBSD_Hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Hey, is there space for a newbie? =) Message-ID: <1032946430.11238.29.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20020925092017.GL23343@spc.org> References: <20020924110929.A18850@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209241226590.65697-100000@root.org> <20020925092017.GL23343@spc.org>
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On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 18:50, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > > Port the Linux Rockwell/Conexant winmodem support to freebsd? (Tons of > > laptops have this chipset). > > http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv/ > > I had a brief look at this last month. I should warn you that the Linux > driver is simply a wrapper. The actual software modem is a Linux object > with encrypted symbols which is linked in to the wrapper to provide the > loadable softmodem module. I didn't get further than that - but I imagine > that there must be some way to convert the module to something which > could be linked in to a corresponding FreeBSD .ko. There are a few ports which do things like this - comms/mwavem comms/ltmdm audio/aureal-kmod And of course VMWare. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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