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RE: "Winmodems" (Support in Linux)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Gibson)
Mon Nov 16 10:44:12 1998
From: "Jason Gibson" <Jason.Gibson.jasongi@nt.com>
To: "'redhat-list@redhat.com'" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 10:40:26 -0500
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Is there any planned support for this under, or associated with, Wine?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Lenzer [SMTP:glenzer@chuhpl.lib.oh.us]
> Sent: Monday, November 16, 1998 7:47 AM
> To: Redhat list
> Subject: "Winmodems" (Support in Linux)
>
> Hello,
>
> I wanted to know if anyone here has any idea of what would go into
> building
> support for Winmodems under Linux. From what little technical knowledge I
> have, I am lead to believe that MOST popular winmodems are based on a
> Rockwell chip. Does anyone think it would be possible to reverse engineer
> a
> winmodem to get the information needed to make a winmodem driver for
> Linux?
> Is Rockwell keeping the info to themselves, or is there any possibility of
> getting enough info from them to design a driver? Lastly, would anyone be
> interested in starting a "Winmodem driver initiative"? I am only just
> beginning to program in C. I haven't even tackled Linux device drivers
> yet.
> But, I would be willing to grow my programming skills doing something like
> this.
>
> Thanks,
> George Lenzer
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