From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 25 2:34: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3CC137B401 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 02:33:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7975C43E81 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 02:33:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.4/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g8P9Xo2l060787; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 19:03:50 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: Hey, is there space for a newbie? =) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Bruce M Simpson Cc: Nate Lawson , Brooks Davis , Paolo Pisati , FreeBSD_Hackers In-Reply-To: <20020925092017.GL23343@spc.org> References: <20020924110929.A18850@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20020925092017.GL23343@spc.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 25 Sep 2002 19:03:48 +0930 Message-Id: <1032946430.11238.29.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Spam-Score: -2.7 () IN_REP_TO,SUBJ_HAS_Q_MARK X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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