Hi, It would be fantastic if that crazy idea could be done! In my opinion a big limitation for greater adoption of linux on third world countries like Colombia where a broadband connection is still a luxury, is the limited modem support. I recently tried to find linux compatible modems and it was impossible (or too expensive -around US$50) in the local market, so I had to ask my brother (who lives in the US) to get me one from ebay which can cost around US$15 incl. shipping.
Cheers, AndrÃs On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 02:04, Peter Zubaj wrote: > slmodem is for SmartLink modems (it has this in licence) and it contans > binary part - it can not run on PPC or other processors. > I've seen somewhere project to write software modem, but it was not > finished and abandoned. > > Peter Zubaj > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 03:27:02PM -0700, Stephen Hassard wrote: > > > > > >>Hey Lee, > >> > >>I was thinking about this a little bit and it's probably easier than it > >>sounds. > >> > >>I thought that Alsa already supported MC97 based AMR modems? It looks > >>like it does with the SND_INTEL8X0M module .. > >> > >>Also, you wouldn't have to worry about injecting stuff into the > >>networking layer since modems are just character devices in linux. > >> > >>The only real part would be the DSP stuff. Their might be some other > >>projects to do this kind of stuff already .. > >> > >> > > > >the slmodemd is already a user space app. > >and it has an alsa mode already. though it did not work when i tested > >it. > > > > > > > >>later, > >>Steve > >> > >>Lee Revell wrote: > >> > >> > >>>I had the idea the other day that you could theoretically implement a > >>>Winmodem driver as a JACK client. All you would need is an ALSA driver > >>>that exposes the hardware part of the modem as a sound card, a mechanism > >>>to inject the resulting bits back into the kernel networking layer, and > >>>the DSP knowledge to implement a software modem... > >>> > >>>This is almost completely pointless, but might be an interesting CS > >>>project. > >>> > >>>Lee > >>> > >>> > >>> > > > > > > > > >
