On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Jeffry Smith wrote:
> Rich Payne said:
> >
> > Just a second.....from the HOWTO:
> >
> > 1.6 Which Systems are Supported
> >
> > This version of the ACP Modem driver supports the IBM
> > ThinkPad 600E, 600, and 770X that come with on board ACP Modem
> > hardware.
> >
> > So it only supports 3 of the many, many thinkpads with MWave
> > modens...sorry to burst your bubble Jeff.
>
> Well, I could make the obligatory comment about you have the source, fix it
> yourself, but it looks like this driver is in two pieces - the GPL'd part that
> you can fix, and the binary .dsp that is the firmware upload to the DSP itself.
>
> Of course, my discussions last year with one of the IBM folks indicates that
> this in itself is a major concession on the 3rd party part. Now to work on
> getting the .dsp package GPL'd, so people could reprogram the DSP ;-)
At one of the Linux shows I went to the IBM booth and said what's the
deal with MWave and Linux, are you going to code a driver or what? His
response was that since IBM itself was slowly moving away from MWave
alltogether that there would be little, if any work done on it.
I don't know who the 3rd party is here....
--rdp
> jeff
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