On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 08:19:21AM -0400, Ward William E PHDN wrote:
[...]
> That said, there is nothing that says a Winmodem can't run under
> Linux... except that you need to have knowledge of how the hardware
> hooks into the software DSP. And that tends to be proprietary.
[...]
> And what makes it harder is that the developers are trying to
> interface with a moving target, in terms of what kernel to use.
What also makes the development slow is that many developers have no
interest in developing drivers for Winmodems, as they - rightly, IMO -
regard them as crippled[0] and hence do not want to support them -
especially not, if supporting them involves the tedious procedure of
reengineering the drivers. In a way I find this understandable - with
real modems, you don't have that "moving target" problem, as they're
just another serial port device.
Hence, the only way of getting drivers en masse I can see is that the
manufacturers actively pursue this. On the other hand, Winmodems were
invented to cut costs, so I wouldn't hold my breath with regard to the
willingness to spend the extra development costs...
My EUR0.02,
Thomas
[0] e.g. because they put extra load on the system - if I recall threads
about this topic correctly
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