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Date:      Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:51:58 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
To:        Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Ports <ports@FreeBSD.org>, Gianmarco Giovanelli <gmarco@giovanelli.it>
Subject:   Re: Bcc: Re: Lucent win modems and others, why not commit ?
Message-ID:  <20010628115158.E97456@bohr.physics.purdue.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010628092950A.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>; from jkh@osd.bsdi.com on Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 09:29:50AM -0700
References:  <20010628092950A.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>

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On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 09:29:50AM -0700, Jordan Hubbard (jkh@osd.bsdi.com) wrote:
> I think a port is going to be the most viable solution for now - this thing
> requires a linux .o file as part of the module, and unless we uuencode the
> thing and write some Makefile glue for installing it (which is icky), it's
> not going to be a good candidate for contrib.  Perhaps one of the ports
> crew would be so kind as to read the instructions in:
>      http://www.geocities.com/wtnbkysh/INSTALL-rough-translation-en.TXT
> and use their advanced Makefile-fu to automate the process?  Lucent
> "lose modem" support is overdue enough as it is.

Sounds good to me.  But I hate ports that require kernel source
trees; makes it difficult to make such things on bento...

-- 
wca

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