Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 23:17:56 -0700 From: Rajasekhar <praj@nando.net> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Modem problems Message-ID: <3175DE94.584B@nando.net>
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Hi, I have bought an IBM Aptiva M30 and installed FreeBSD 2.1.0. I hope the problem i have faced is not unique to me, in which case there is little hope of expecting a solution immediately :-). The uniqueness/stupidity of the Aptiva system is that they have a single card, using an MWAVE DSP processor, to implement modem functionality sound card functionality and also controlling the CD drive (i think). What MWAVE needs is DSP tasks for each application (modem, tel, cdplayer) to be downloaded onto it at boot time and a mwave manager on the PC controls "requests" to the MWAVE processor. All this is hazy stuff that i have figured out without access to any docs. So if i want my modem/CD to work on FreeBSD, i should have a driver/daemon to download the DSP tasks to the MWAVE processor and also i need to write an MWAVE manager to handle requests to MWAVE. I want to know if someone has already done this crazy stuff. If not is there some way (assuming that someone knows about MWAVE and stuff) of getting supporting docs to write the manager on FreeBSD? There is an MWAVE Developer'sKit avail for the DOS/Windows environment, which i gather is prohibitively expensive and i am not sure it will help. Thanks in advance even for the patience in reading this mail! -Raj
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