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Re: "Winmodems" (Support in Linux)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ramon Gandia)
Mon Nov 16 13:29:10 1998
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 09:22:20 -0900
From: Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net>
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George Lenzer wrote:
>
> 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.
Anything is possible, but I doubt that you will see much interest
in this. The reason is that Windmodems put a great performance
hit on the cpu cycles. Why support a device that ruins the
performance of Linux (or Windows 95 for that matter)?
A regular modem can be just as cheap/cheesy and still not be
a Winmodem. Or just go ahead and get a proper modem.
Its not up to me, but I would VOTE against anyone spending the
time and effort to write such a driver.
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