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Actually, if I remember correctly, some of the driver code belongs to Microsoft with licensing that effectively prevents use of that code on non-windows systems. That does not prevent a vendor from writing a Linux driver from scratch, but it changes the economics a bit. "Wendell" wrote: > I totally agree that winmodems were a cheap way to trick the public into paying > more money for less hardware. But still, the fact remains that the modem mfg's > were able to write combination software application/drivers to run under wintel > systems. One of them should be able to port that technology to the Linux & Unix > worlds. They already know the algorithms needed to make the correct > calculations & send the data in the necessary format out a db-9 serial port on > a wintel box; the same must be possible to be done under a Linux or Solaris > box, or even on a MAC or BeOS system. Surely there must be close to a critical > mass now of Linux users to make the development of such hardware cost > effective? -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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