Re: modem in new TiPB and iBooks ?

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 10:41:41PM -0500, Daniel Berlin wrote:

On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 21:06, Bastien Nocera wrote:

quoted

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.

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.

Marc seems to be quite busy at the moment, but he'll catch on on this
subject after returning to his office at March 23rd.

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On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Harald Welte wrote:

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 10:41:41PM -0500, Daniel Berlin wrote:

quoted

On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 21:06, Bastien Nocera wrote:

quoted

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


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