Re: GPL source code for Smart USB 56 modem (includes ALSA AC97 patch)

David Lloyd
2004-09-21T20:09:11Z

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, David Woodhouse wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 01:11 +0300, SashaK wrote:
>> This is exactly that was discussed - 'slamr' is going to be replaced by
>> ALSA drivers. I don't know which modem you have, but recent ALSA
>> driver (CVS version) already supports ICH, SiS, NForce (snd-intel8x0m),
>> ATI IXP (snd-atiixp-modem) and VIA (snd-via82xx-modem) AC97 modems.
>
> What chance of making it work with the ISDN drivers? Should we make an
> ALSA driver for ISDN?

That's an interesting idea. Some thoughts I'd have off the bat:

- I don't think there's a software modem implementation (free or
otherwise) for linux that can support the server side of a digital
(v.90, v.92) connection, but that would be excellent to have

- Americans might have an FCC concern due to power output restrictions on
digital modem protocols, and also other voice applications

- Presumably it would only make sense to do this with voice connections

- Could this idea be extended to analog telephony devices?