From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 27 10:31:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (GndRsh.dnsmgr.net [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF5C915037 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 10:31:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA77545; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 10:30:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <200001271830.KAA77545@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: Warner's PCI Modem Driver In-Reply-To: from "Glendon M. Gross" at "Jan 27, 2000 08:24:22 am" To: gross@clones.com (Glendon M. Gross) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 10:30:32 -0800 (PST) Cc: saper@system.pl (Marcin Cieslak), jcwells@u.washington.edu (Jason C. Wells), imp@village.org (Warner Losh), freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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? Ahhh.. not unless your ready to provide a full emulation of the windows API as you never know what these drivers might call. Also you need to do hard real time to be able to run a soft DSP, and we are a very long ways from hard real time. (So is windows, thats why these modems tend to be so problematic on systems under heavy loads). > 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!] Your going to have to emulate a rather larger portion of MS-windows to get them to work :-(. > Forgive me if it's not possible, but I'm starting to believe that "FreeBSD > can do anything." --Glen Gross > Anything that is reasonable to do... :-) -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message