Re: Now Apple has it's winmodem ;(
On ven, nov 30, 2001 at 10:32:32 +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >late 2001 iBooks have built-in usb based soft-modems...
> >So long opensource drivers...
> This is unfortunately also the case of new titanium powerbooks
> like the one I just purchased, and I beleive all new machines that
> will be released from now :(
Holly sh*t ! I bought a brand new ibook because I saw the modem working
perfectly on the old one :(
> All we can do is try getting Conexant to build a binary driver
> for us, or at least provide one of us with the source under NDA so
> we can build a binary driver.
Taken from http://www.conexant.com/cnxt/customer/md_faqs.htm#q2
11. Do you have any drivers for Linux?
A modem driver for the Linux operating system will be available by the end
of calendar year 2001.
...Of course, there is nothing about the architecture nor the license...
Has anyone seen something about softmodems in Darwin code ?
LB.
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