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Date:      Wed, 18 Apr 2001 20:32:12 +0200
From:      Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk>
To:        Simon Walton <simonw@lucent.com>
Cc:        oberman@es.net, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Modem on laptop...
Message-ID:  <20010418203212.D41847@skriver.dk>
In-Reply-To: <3ADDCDB3.FE7205AD@lucent.com>; from simonw@lucent.com on Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 10:24:03AM -0700
References:  <3ADDCDB3.FE7205AD@lucent.com>

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On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 10:24:03AM -0700, Simon Walton wrote:
> > Well, a bit of research shows that the WinModem on the 600E is based
> > on the IBM ACP mWave modem, not a Lucent. IBM has open-sourced drivers
> > for this chip available for Linux, so it might be possible to convert
> > it to run on FreeBSD, but I don't have the time to learn to do it,
> > let alone to do it.
> 
>    I did this port a little while ago and it seems to work ok 
> on my 600E. IBM have just posted my version of the source on their
> web site alongside the linux version:
>    
> http://oss.software.ibm.com/developer/opensource/linux/projects/mwave/

As it can't be imported (due to license issues), have you considered
creating a port ?

/Jesper

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