Date: 20 Jun 2003 16:41:17 +0400 From: Sergey Akifyev <asa@gascom.ru> To: Jeandre du Toit <jeandre@itvs.co.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB Modem Message-ID: <1056112877.27633.12.camel@asa.gascom.net.ru> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306200927430.3200-100000@localhost.localdomain> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306200927430.3200-100000@localhost.localdomain>
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--=-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 <asa@gascom.ru> JSC Gascom <http://www.gascom.ru>; 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--
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