If an infinite number of newbies lay hold of an infinite number of
winmodems, given an infinite amount of time, one of them will write a
driver for one of them. The point you're missing is that the people who
manufacture these beauties won't turn loose the interface specs for
them, and even the best programmer can't build a usable driver just by
wanting to: he needs some idea of what he is working with. Pry loose
the specs, and give me a win-modem to test with, and _I'll_ make a
driver for it. There are no doubt thousands of people who can do it
faster and better than I. The only other way to do it would be to
reverse-engineer the windows driver software, but nobody who is clever
enough to do that has been dumb enough to buy a win-modem, I guess. :-)
ICBW, of course. There may be a win-modem driver just sitting on some
ftp site waiting for the world to discover it. It might even be in the
LSM. (Linux Software Map - somewhere not far under
metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs)
Lawson
>< Microsoft free environment
This mail client runs on Wine. Your mileage may vary.
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Bob wrote:
> Greetings - As a real newbie a dumb question. I appreciate what has
> become to be called the WIN MODEM which will only work with WINDOWs
> because part of the modem activity is being performed by the driver
> software which is specific to that OS. Given these modems are some
what
> cheaper and seem to work just as fine is there a LINUX driver to do
this
> modem "function"? Maybe such a bit of software is being considered.
> Seems such a need exists.
>
> Or, am I missing the point here?
>
> Thanks for the read.
>
> Bob
>
>
>
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