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Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 17:59:15 -0500
Subject: Re: ESS Allegro (ESS1988/ESS1989) support
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Let me guess...

You have a Compaq Presario 1700 (or 17XLxxx), right?
Is there any information on the Conexant chipset available that might 
assist in writing a driver?  I found it difficult to find drivers for any 
OS, including the Redmond ones.

At 08:38 AM 12/8/2000 +0200, Graham Wheeler wrote:
>Hi all
>
>I was wondering if anyone is working on this? The Linux folk recently
>released a driver as part of the ALSA sound project code. I thought I
>might take a stab at porting that, but to be honest I'm out of my depth
>when it comes to the FreeBSD sound subsystem - I should probablt
>restrict my interest to getting an Ethernet driver working for the
>Conexant LANfinity chipset in my laptop.
>
>But I would be interested to know if support is likely to come soon
>(else I guess I'll be buying 4Front's OSS package in January when they
>release a FreeBSD version with Allegro support).
>
>regards
>Gram
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