From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 20 05:42:13 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5C4E37B401 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 05:42:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gascom.ru (mail.gascom.ru [217.17.160.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7B4DC43F75 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 05:42:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asa@gascom.ru) Received: (qmail 91053 invoked from network); 20 Jun 2003 12:28:06 -0000 Received: from asa.gascom.net.ru (HELO ?192.168.100.29?) (192.168.100.29) by mail.gascom.ru with SMTP; 20 Jun 2003 12:28:06 -0000 From: Sergey Akifyev To: Jeandre du Toit In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-KH4mUR5ajLgel70kgKsY" Organization: JSC Gascom Message-Id: <1056112877.27633.12.camel@asa.gascom.net.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.0 Date: 20 Jun 2003 16:41:17 +0400 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB Modem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 12:42:14 -0000 --=-KH4mUR5ajLgel70kgKsY Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 11:33, Jeandre du Toit wrote: > I have a AzTech USB modem, I found a linux driver on their website and it= =20 > works. I have problems surfing on Windows it keeps screwing up my=20 > connection, and I would like to get rid of linux to make more space for=20 > FreeBSD. My question is how much work is involved to convert the code fro= m=20 > creating a linux kernel module to something that can work on FreeBSD? I=20 > have never coded something on FreeBSD before, if it is not too difficult,= =20 > I could try. FreeBSD already have umodem driver, which supports most USB modems :) As for your question converting driver from Linux to BSD is difficult as writing totally new driver, most of the time you use Linux code only for information about the device [ports/interrupts/ID's/etc...] --=20 regards, Sergey Akifyev JSC Gascom PGP key available from: ftp://ftp.gascom.ru/pub/PGP-keys/asa.txt --=-KH4mUR5ajLgel70kgKsY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+8wDtbu06QwmNwNsRAoboAJ9gIbPDmiDLUGQA3UzY9UBibIAPegCcDt7/ llqQMv0vf4fd0A+vz33A3Cs= =7rdJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-KH4mUR5ajLgel70kgKsY--