Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 8 Oct 2001 12:19:11 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: linmodems (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] FUSD v1.00: Framework for User-Space Devices) |
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Hi!
> My best guess for a Linux winmodem solution for Linux is three pieces: > The existing Lucent (and other) hardware work (by Pavel/Richard/Jamie/others?) > Rogier Wolff's user space serial driver code, and > A work called "modem" by a now-deceased scientist at SGI(IIRC). Alan > pointed me to the last piece. 'modem' handles up to 14.4k speed, and > supports some error correcting protocols we all remember from the BBS > days. > > Just need someone to glue those pieces together... and you have a > winmodem driver with the proper portions in userspace, and the proper > portions in kernel space.
One of students here was/is working on the glue; it is non-trivial as 'modem' is obfuscated with coroutines. Pavel -- Philips Velo 1: 1"x4"x8", 300gram, 60, 12MB, 40bogomips, linux, mutt, details at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/velo/index.html.
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