At the moment, I'm using a binary-only driver for my (lousy) HSP Modem (a Motorola SM56-based chipset). Now that Motorola has ceased to support the chipset (even in Windows), the binary-only driver is stuck in a time-warp, as it only works for kernel 2.4.2 (and, with a kludge, it now works in kernels >=2.4.8 as well, up to 2.4.20). Of course, the kludge only holds up to the 2.4 series kernels, and it may not hold for later kernels (after all, we know how fast the kernel evolves).
My question is, is it feasible to reverse-engineer something like this, or should I just keep on kludging it? I'm currently looking into helping out the LinModem community on this. The module is about ~1.3MB in size (hefty, dammit) and some of the code could be taken from elsewhere (other HSP/DSP software modem drivers, hopefully some of which are open-source), while the actual module-to-chipset interface could (potentially) remain as-is. The way I see it, kludges are definitely *not* what I would do, and although I'm not experienced enough to undertake something of that magnitude, I'm just curious (and crazy) enough to think about it. ;) -- (On an off-topic note, my blood drained when I saw the count of new messages in my Inbox. One hundred eighty... dang... and a good portion of it is from a Sacha thread. I never used Yahoo!'s email blocking to killfile anyone before (except, maybe the occasional spammer that gets through), and now I'm actually tempted to use it. hmm...) the Cyberlizard __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
