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Re: Winmodems support under linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Serena Del Bianco)
Tue Nov 17 20:24:05 1998
From: "Serena Del Bianco" <sere77@hotmail.com>
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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 17:23:03 PST
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George: I have an Sporster Si. US robotics listed as a winmodem which is
running under linux, the documentation about the modem says: "this modem
requires a WINRPI driver to work because it provides MNP 2-4 and V.42
error control and MNP5 V.42 bis data compression blah blah blah" The
fact is that i opened the modem and i saw a COM and IRQ panel i changed
the pins to COM2 and IRQ3 and i disabled com2 since linux can not share
IRQs (like José Sánchez told me ;o) ) after that the modem works GREAT
without ANY aditional drivers... I think some modems companys sells the
modem like a "winmodem" but those drivers "needed" for data compression
blah blah are NOT needed at all under linux if you can set the serials
and IRQs settings.
Best Regards
Serena Del Bianco
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>From: "George Lenzer" <glenzer@chuhpl.lib.oh.us>
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>Subject: "Winmodems" (Support in Linux)
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>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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