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

Mikael Pettersson
2004-09-11T10:26:21Z

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 19:51:04 +0300, SashaK <sashak@smlink.com> wrote:
>Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> The good news is that there a completely GPL'ed, source-complete
>> driver already in the 2.6 kernel, sound/pci/intel8x0m.c, which will
>> work with the user-mode daemon found in the smlink.com distribution.
>> This driver doesn't have all of the functionality of slamr driver
>> (which requires the propietary, binary-only object file) --- most
>> notably, ATM1 doesn't work when using the completely open-source
>> intl8x0m driver.
>
>Those functionality limitations in open source modem drivers are just
>"unimplemented yet" stuff. The final goal is to replace proprietary
>slamr driver completely.

I hope you succeed with open-sourcing all of slmodem's driver
code. My Targa Athlon64 laptop has the AMR thingy and the
32-bit x86 binary only slmodem driver prevents me from using
the modem while running a 64-bit kernel.

/Mikael