From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 6 15:49:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from drawbridge.ascend.com (drawbridge.ascend.com [198.4.92.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D44737B422 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 15:49:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from simonw@lucent.com) Received: from fw-ext.ascend.com (fw-ext [198.4.92.5]) by drawbridge.ascend.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id PAA16513 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 15:48:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from russet.ascend.com by fw-ext.ascend.com via smtpd (for drawbridge.ascend.com [198.4.92.1]) with SMTP; 6 Apr 2001 22:48:33 UT Received: from wopr.eng.ascend.com (wopr.eng.ascend.com [206.65.212.178]) by russet.ascend.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA26557 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 15:48:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from simonw-sun (simonw-sun.eng.ascend.com [135.140.26.74]) by wopr.eng.ascend.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA06601 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 15:48:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eng.ascend.com by eng.ascend.com Message-ID: <3ACE47C0.5095771@lucent.com> Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 15:48:32 -0700 From: Simon Walton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.6 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: IBM ACP modem driver Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A couple of months ago IBM released the source to their linux modem driver for the thinkpad 600 & 600E: http://oss.software.ibm.com/developer/opensource/linux/projects/mwave/ The modem is a controllerless DSP - there is a userspace daemon the acts as the controller and communicates with the DSP via a dynamically loaded device driver. The DSP also emulates a serial chip which allows a standard serial-line driver to be used. I have ported the driver to freebsd 4.1.1 on a thinkpad 600E. The daemon just required a few mods to basically get it to compile; the kernel module needed a fairly major overhaul, as you might imagine. It seems to work ok with tip as a simple dialup serial line; I haven't tried dialup IP. I was wondering what the best way to make it available to other freebsd users was. I emailed IBM about hosting it but they haven't replied. I think it would take quite a bit of clean-up to include it in the standard kernel, and I don't have -current anyway. I'd be willing to make it into a separate package though. Any suggestions? Simon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message