> A brief Introduction
> I am a Windoze user, programmer, system administrator. compitent
> in C/C++, Delphi, Visual Basic and more. I also am a little more
> than a newbe to linux with several computers running Windows
> version x and Linux mostlly using Lucent Viking modems.
> I have been trying to make these work in linux and have been
> reading all of the topics from several mailing lists with very
> little help until I found someone saying that this modem was all
> software driven (duh I knew that) and that the drivers were
> somekind of seceret (did not know that can't even see how, sence
> i found them?) and that they were not available.
> Well as of now i have the technology (drivers source code) to
> make the drivers required to run my modem. I can recreate the
> drivers for windozs make new ones for DOS (also not "supported"
> by the vendor) but i have no ability to program in Linux and
> don't even know where to start.
If this is true, and the driver source is in C, then you've basically
done the job - tweaking it to run under Linux instead of DOS is most
probably the easiest part of the procedure.
> The drivers would need to do 3 major things
> 1. initialize the device maybee at a very early stage the ports
> are turned off until initialize is complete and successful.
> 2. process every 32bit word before being sent to the modem.
> 3. process every 32bit word after being recieved by the modem.
4. Do so FAST so as to keep the data rate up.
> I think this might be slightly off topic but am not sure I know
> that i have seen this and simalar topics on this and a few other
> mailing lists. sorry for any inconvience. please feel free to
> respond even if you don't know how to do this as I learn from
> every comment
Best wishes from Riley.
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| There is something frustrating about the quality and speed of Linux |
| development, ie., the quality is too high and the speed is too high, |
| in other words, I can implement this XXXX feature, but I bet someone |
| else has already done so and is just about to release their patch. |
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