Lucent WinModem

Lucent WinModem

[Elieser Leão]

How can I use my LT Winmodem on Slackware???
I have a driver but doesn't work!!!! I don't know why...

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Re: Lucent WinModem

[William Stearns]

Good day, Elieser,

On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Elieser Leão wrote:

> How can I use my LT Winmodem on Slackware???
> I have a driver but doesn't work!!!! I don't know why...

	Please see http://www.linmodems.org/ for more information and a 
mailing list where your question should go.
	Cheers,
	- Bill

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Re: Lucent WinModem

[Alan Cox]

> How can I use my LT Winmodem on Slackware???
> I have a driver but doesn't work!!!! I don't know why...

Ask the binary only driver provider.

This list is about free software, and nobody else but the driver vendor
can really help you

Re: Lucent WinModem

[Nadav Har'El]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002, Alan Cox wrote about "Re: Lucent WinModem":
> > How can I use my LT Winmodem on Slackware???
> > I have a driver but doesn't work!!!! I don't know why...
> 
> Ask the binary only driver provider.
> 
> This list is about free software, and nobody else but the driver vendor
> can really help you

Actually, I think that Lucent's driver has been open source (I didn't check
how "free" their license is) for at least a year now. No more of these ugly
binary drivers that you had to apply binary patches (aggh!) to on every
kernel version.

A quick google search turned out http://www.heby.de/ltmodem as a place you
can get the sources.

I'm using such a driver on my laptop (Redhat 7.2), I compiled it myself (I
don't know why Redhat doesn't include a module for this modem - maybe it
isn't "free enough") and the modem is working nicely.

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Re: Lucent WinModem

[Christoph Rohland]

Hi Nadav,

On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2002, Alan Cox wrote about "Re: Lucent WinModem":
> Actually, I think that Lucent's driver has been open source (I
> didn't check how "free" their license is) for at least a year
> now. No more of these ugly binary drivers that you had to apply
> binary patches (aggh!) to on every kernel version.

Nope, in the archive you will find a file ltmdmobj.o. The rest is a
wrapper for this binary only driver.

Greetings
		Christoph

Re: Lucent WinModem

[Todd M. Roy]

If you unpack ltmodem, then source.tar.gz you will find an object
module that you don't have to source to.  Therefor the lucent winmodem
code can't be open source.

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>  On Wed, Feb 20, 2002, Alan Cox wrote about "Re: Lucent WinModem":
>  > > How can I use my LT Winmodem on Slackware???
>  > > I have a driver but doesn't work!!!! I don't know why...
>  > 
>  > Ask the binary only driver provider.
>  > 
>  > This list is about free software, and nobody else but the driver vendor
>  > can really help you
>  
>  Actually, I think that Lucent's driver has been open source (I didn't check
>  how "free" their license is) for at least a year now. No more of these ugly
>  binary drivers that you had to apply binary patches (aggh!) to on every
>  kernel version.
>  
>  A quick google search turned out http://www.heby.de/ltmodem as a place you
>  can get the sources.
>  
>  I'm using such a driver on my laptop (Redhat 7.2), I compiled it myself (I
>  don't know why Redhat doesn't include a module for this modem - maybe it
>  isn't "free enough") and the modem is working nicely.
>  
>  -- 
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>  nyh@math.technion.ac.il             |-----------------------------------------
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Re: Lucent WinModem

[Pavel Machek]

hi!

> > How can I use my LT Winmodem on Slackware???
> > I have a driver but doesn't work!!!! I don't know why...
> 
> Ask the binary only driver provider.
> 
> This list is about free software, and nobody else but the driver vendor
> can really help you

Well... no. HW driver is already done, so what we need is someone
implementing opensource V.34/V.90. Anyone can do that.
								Pavel
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