From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jan 28 0:49:53 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 3A16014C46 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 00:49:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steve@pooh.elsevier.nl) Received: (from steve@localhost) by pooh.elsevier.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA00344; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 08:47:25 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: <389087E3.91E57F5F@home.com> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 08:47:25 -0000 (GMT) From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" To: "Gary T. Corcoran" Subject: Re: PCI Modem Driver Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 27-Jan-00 Gary T. Corcoran wrote: > Your modem, heck even the PCI bus, will be obsolete before you could reverse > engineer ltmodem.vxd... ;-) Hmm, the tack being taken by the people who have working code is to treat the modem as a soundcard with phone line interface (they don't even try to use the DSP). Their setup is completely userland - not even a kernel module. IMHO a nice direction to go would be to abstract the Lucent stuff from the OS dependent stuff then put the former in a .o file with an API compile it for FreeBSD (et alia) document the API and it should be easy enough to produce a whole suite of apps/kernel drivers. Actually I would like to see the source released but ... See my other mail in freebsd-stable for links. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message