Smartlink modem driver
Matthew Garrett
mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Thu Sep 23 13:33:56 UTC 2004
On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 12:05 +0100, Mary Gardiner wrote:
> There's a free implementation included somewhere in those files: I don't
> know whether it is mature enough to include with the kernel
> distribution. This modem seems to be fairly commonly included with
> Centrino laptops.
The kernel-space driver for PCI devices is included as an ALSA driver in
recent versions of the 2.6 kernel. It should already be being loaded
automatically. However, I'm not aware of a free userspace implementation
- there's awkward patents on most of the usefully fast modem protocols.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
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