From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 27 8:46:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pooh.elsevier.nl (pooh.elsevier.nl [145.36.9.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81EC715691 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 08:46:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steve@pooh.elsevier.nl) Received: (from steve@localhost) by pooh.elsevier.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA11204; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 16:45:32 GMT (envelope-from steve) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 16:45:32 -0000 (GMT) From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" To: Marcin Cieslak Subject: Re: Warner's PCI Modem Driver Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Warner Losh , "Jason C. Wells" , "Rodney W. Grimes" , "Glendon M. Gross" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 27-Jan-00 Marcin Cieslak wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Glendon M. Gross wrote: > >> >> If Winmodems are so available, would it be possible to hack the >> proprietary code and develop a KLM which could talk to the WinModem's DSP? >> I know nobody wants to do this, but considering the availability of the >> junky winmodems, it sure would be nice if there were such a module [short >> of emulating MS-Windows in the background!] > > Yes, sure. Have look at 500KB+ driver for Lucent winmodem in my notebook > (LTMODEM.VXD or something). Reverse engineering such amount of code is > a challenge in itself. > > However, I am not sure if such a project had not already begun. Yes it has, follow links from www.linmodems.org to Richard Close and Pavel Macheks driver, I managed to get it partially working on FreeBSD and I may go back to it at some point (when time and inclination coincide). You will also find links to Fabrice Bellards work on producing a completely soft modem which even works on solaris. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message