From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 6 18:15:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 533F137B4E5 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 18:15:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA12762; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 19:15:19 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <200011070215.TAA12762@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: Supporting "winmodems" (was: PCI Modems Not Shown As Supported Hardware) In-Reply-To: <200011060232.eA62WeZ31852@emu.os2.ami.com.au> from John Summerfield at "Nov 6, 0 10:34:52 am" To: summer@OS2.ami.com.au (John Summerfield) Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 19:15:19 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com Organization: DCF, Inc. X-O/S: FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE X-Unexpected: The Spanish Inquisition X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (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 As I recall, John Summerfield wrote: > Someone else did it. > > There are drivers for Linux for some winmodems, though I don't know > where. Porting them to FreeBSD ought not be so difficult. The only ones I've seen are binary only, implemented as loadable kernel modules. Not exactly in the OpenSource spirit, and not portable to FreeBSD. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message