Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 13:21:42 +0000 From: Antony T Curtis <antony@abacus.co.uk> To: Michel TALON <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Supporting "winmodems" (was: PCI Modems Not Shown As Supported Hardware) Message-ID: <3A06B066.C1ADC2B8@abacus.co.uk> References: <3A063FAE.87E76566@micron.net> <20001106093301.A60076@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
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Michel TALON wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 09:20:46PM -0800, Anthony wrote: > > Check out the site, if you like: http://linmodems.org/ > > > > There is support for Lucent winmodems in Linux. However, this requires a > fairly big linux kernel module, that has been written by Lucent themselves. > The modem worked well under RedHat 6.2, but as soon as you upgrade to > RedHat 7.0 you are stuck. The eternal problem of binary only drivers. > Since Lucent do not release the source code, and since it is a very > complicated code, i think there is no hope to get a FreeBSD driver soon. Some people appear to be working on developing an open-source Lucent driver. I have counted at least 4 independent efforts: Some duplicate the work of others, some have developed further in some areas than others but none of them are fully functional. > The modularized modern kernels are a good thing, but this allows to release > binary only kernel modules. This is a plague which generalizes fast. For > example you have the binary only driver for nVidia video cards and > XFree 4 which at present, runs only in Linux. And I thought the whole concept behind the XFree86-4 driver architecture is for platform neutral x86 drivers... -- ANTONY T CURTIS Tel: +44 (1635) 36222 Abacus Polar Holdings Ltd Fax: +44 (1635) 38670 > Truth is the most valuable thing we have -- so let us economize it. > -- Mark Twain To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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