Conexant HSF modem support in ubuntu - call for testing

[Matthew Garrett]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 09:19:29AM -0300, Alexandre Strube wrote:

> But then, a guy named Rafael Espindola got that old open-source version
> and ported it to 2.6 kernels. It still depends on that firmware files,
> which can be found at the modem's cd (they release that old free driver
> with it)

Cool. I'm having a quick play with it now (Thinkpad with Conexant codec 
attached to the ICH).

> I also would ask the Ubuntu people some assistance regarding the legal
> issues on it. Is Elmo the guy for it, isn't he?

With the exception of the firmware, there should be no legal issues - 
the driver is clearly under a fairly BSD-style license. The stuff under 
imported/ is non-free, though.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org