On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Harald Welte wrote: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 10:41:41PM -0500, Daniel Berlin wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 21:06, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > If I don't have my head too far up my arse yet, I think this might > > > interest quite a few people (ie. not me). > > > > > > http://lwn.net/2002/0314/a/hcf.php3 > > > > > > Am I on the right track ? > > > > Yes, except both BenH and I have already emailed him, no response from > > him at all yet. > > Update: Marc Boucher has now replied to BenH's mail after I bugged him ;) > > There are several issues: > > 1) His current driver doesn't support the USB version of the winmodems yet. > However, connexant is interested in providing drivers for the USB versions > aswell. I'm aware of this, i've already got the ACM USB driver able to detect/let me access the modem, I just don't have the engine necessary to drive it.
> > 2) The proprietary libraries used in the driver need to be compiled for the > PPC architecture. To do this, Marc needs access to a PPC machine for > compiling the proprietary source. I know this as well, and offered to do this. In fact, all I asked for was the binary modules compiled for PPC, given that I give him access to a PPC machine. The rest I can do myself. --Dan
