Not sure why this has gone offlist so I'll post my reply back to the list..

Yes but the point is most open source developers don't need a winmodem so
why would they get involved in development for them?

People develop what interests them or what their employers/sponsors pay
them to develop. As most winmodem manufacturers aren't really that
interested in the open source market they are not paying linux developers..

On Fri, November 30, 2007 12:17 pm, Chris wrote:
> Sadly, this is true.
> However, when one is traveling, and particularly to odd places ie
> Bolivia, Papua Nui Guinea, and a few others in cluding parts of the USA
> adsl dose not exist.
> Hence the need for a hadware Modem.
> Cheers Chris
> On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 08:10 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
>> I think the problem with winmodem drivers at  present is that there is
>> mnimal interest only. Analogue modems have really had their day with
>> most
>> of the developed world having pretty ubiquitous broadband and wireless..
>>
>>
>> On Thu, November 29, 2007 6:05 pm, Chris wrote:
>> > Hi Christopher,
>> >
>> > I notice you mention winmodems in this post.
>> >
>> > Have you had any sucess with these?
>> >
>> > In a moment of madness i tried a Linuxant driver, which continually
>> > failed.  There Techs fianlly admited that there are modulation issues
>> > with the linuxant drivers, with the result that i am using a hardware
>> > modem with a USB to serial cable.
>> >
>> > Just wondered if I had missed something somewhere
>> >
>> > Regards Chris T
>> > On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 17:18 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
>> >> I added PC-BSD-1.4.1 yesterday.
>> >>
>> >
>> >> but I know nothing about that. Similarly I have not tried its
>> >> abilities with WinModems
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
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Nick Rout

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