Obtaining 2.6.8-1.541 source code
Nick Coghlan
ncoghlan at iinet.net.au
Tue Sep 14 08:47:53 UTC 2004
Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 07:42, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>
>>Some background - I'm running FC3-test on an Asus M6BN laptop. This
>>means the only option to get my modem
>
>
> are you sure? what's the pci id of the modem, does the snd-intel8x0m
> driver recognize it?
It's a lovely Conexant soft modem, which as far as I know snd-intel8x0m
can't support because the codec is proprietary (certainly, FC3-test1
didn't even think I *had* a modem, until after I installed the linuxant
driver)
> if so you can use it natively in linux without evil
> binary kernel modules
Heck, I'm using a Windows driver binary to talk to the builtin wireless
interface. The linuxant drivers are the least of my worries ;)
As I see it, Linuxant are doing me a favour by letting me use the OS of
my choice on the hardware of my choice, despite the recalcitrance of a
couple of hardware vendors (well, just Intel actually, since they make
both the modem and the wireless hardware).
Cheers,
Nick.
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