On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 18:50, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> > Port the Linux Rockwell/Conexant winmodem support to freebsd?  (Tons of
> > laptops have this chipset).
> >   http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv/
> 
> I had a brief look at this last month. I should warn you that the Linux
> driver is simply a wrapper. The actual software modem is a Linux object
> with encrypted symbols which is linked in to the wrapper to provide the
> loadable softmodem module. I didn't get further than that - but I imagine
> that there must be some way to convert the module to something which
> could be linked in to a corresponding FreeBSD .ko.

There are a few ports which do things like this - 
comms/mwavem
comms/ltmdm
audio/aureal-kmod

And of course VMWare.

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
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