Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Apr 1999 14:42:43 +0100 (GMT) | From | Riley Williams <> | Subject | Re: Please!! Help me to help us to use WinModems in Linux |
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Hi Richard.
> A brief Introduction
> I am a Windoze user, programmer, system administrator. compitent > in C/C++, Delphi, Visual Basic and more. I also am a little more > than a newbe to linux with several computers running Windows > version x and Linux mostlly using Lucent Viking modems.
> I have been trying to make these work in linux and have been > reading all of the topics from several mailing lists with very > little help until I found someone saying that this modem was all > software driven (duh I knew that) and that the drivers were > somekind of seceret (did not know that can't even see how, sence > i found them?) and that they were not available.
> Well as of now i have the technology (drivers source code) to > make the drivers required to run my modem. I can recreate the > drivers for windozs make new ones for DOS (also not "supported" > by the vendor) but i have no ability to program in Linux and > don't even know where to start.
If this is true, and the driver source is in C, then you've basically done the job - tweaking it to run under Linux instead of DOS is most probably the easiest part of the procedure.
> The drivers would need to do 3 major things
> 1. initialize the device maybee at a very early stage the ports > are turned off until initialize is complete and successful.
> 2. process every 32bit word before being sent to the modem.
> 3. process every 32bit word after being recieved by the modem.
4. Do so FAST so as to keep the data rate up.
> I think this might be slightly off topic but am not sure I know > that i have seen this and simalar topics on this and a few other > mailing lists. sorry for any inconvience. please feel free to > respond even if you don't know how to do this as I learn from > every comment
Best wishes from Riley.
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