[thinkpad] Re: [thinkpad] [ltp] T23 with arm soft modem

[Tod Harter]

You just end up with one of those 'object code only' drivers, which may be a 
pain in the behind, but better than nothing. 

On Thursday 12 December 2002 09:00 am, Tino Keitel wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 08:54:45 -0500, Tod Harter wrote:
> > The proper answer to all this of course is 'well what are you waiting
> > for, write a driver!!!' ;o).
>
> I think the problem is not to write the driver, but get the information
> you need to write the driver from 3com. As the first thing they want
> you to do before they start to speak to you is to sign a NDA, this
> driver will be pretty useless since you are the only one who will be
> allowed to use the driver when it's finished. :-)
>
> > On Thursday 12 December 2002 04:06 am, Michael Selway wrote:
> > > JC WOODWARD writes:
> > >  > From: <jjmckenzie51@earthlink.net>
> > >  >
> > >  > >The T23 shipped with an AMR modem which is NOT supported by the
> > >  > > LTModem
> > >  >
> > >  > I see on closer inspection that the IBM webpage says the LTModem was
> > >  > shipped with the T20, T21, and T22.  Which, of course, does NOT mean
> > >  > T2* as I had assumed.
> > >
> > > it's worse than that: the T21 (and maybe others) shipped with one
> > > of two different modems on their internal miniPCI cards.  One can
> > > be driven from linux (with ltmodem, iirc), the other, by 3com,
> > > can't.  lspci on my machine sez:
> > >
> > > 00:03.1 Communication controller: 3Com Corporation Mini PCI 56k
> > > Winmodem (rev 20)
> > >
> > > I believe there are no plans to support this modem under linux.
> >
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> > Tod Harter
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Tod Harter
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