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Date:      20 Jun 2003 16:41:17 +0400
From:      Sergey Akifyev <asa@gascom.ru>
To:        Jeandre du Toit <jeandre@itvs.co.za>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: USB Modem
Message-ID:  <1056112877.27633.12.camel@asa.gascom.net.ru>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306200927430.3200-100000@localhost.localdomain>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306200927430.3200-100000@localhost.localdomain>

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On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 11:33, Jeandre du Toit wrote:
> I have a AzTech USB modem, I found a linux driver on their website and it=
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> works. I have problems surfing on Windows it keeps screwing up my=20
> connection, and I would like to get rid of linux to make more space for=20
> FreeBSD. My question is how much work is involved to convert the code fro=
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> creating a linux kernel module to something that can work on FreeBSD? I=20
> have never coded something on FreeBSD before, if it is not too difficult,=
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> I could try.
FreeBSD already have umodem driver, which supports most USB modems :)
As for your question converting driver from Linux to BSD is difficult as
writing totally new driver, most of the time you use Linux code only for
information about the device [ports/interrupts/ID's/etc...]
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regards,
Sergey Akifyev <asa@gascom.ru>
JSC Gascom <http://www.gascom.ru>;
PGP key available from:
ftp://ftp.gascom.ru/pub/PGP-keys/asa.txt

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