USB Modem

Sergey Akifyev asa at gascom.ru
Fri Jun 20 05:42:14 PDT 2003


On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 11:33, Jeandre du Toit wrote:
> I have a AzTech USB modem, I found a linux driver on their website and it 
> works. I have problems surfing on Windows it keeps screwing up my 
> connection, and I would like to get rid of linux to make more space for 
> FreeBSD. My question is how much work is involved to convert the code from 
> creating a linux kernel module to something that can work on FreeBSD? I 
> have never coded something on FreeBSD before, if it is not too difficult, 
> I could try.
FreeBSD already have umodem driver, which supports most USB modems :)
As for your question converting driver from Linux to BSD is difficult as
writing totally new driver, most of the time you use Linux code only for
information about the device [ports/interrupts/ID's/etc...]
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regards,
Sergey Akifyev <asa at gascom.ru>
JSC Gascom <http://www.gascom.ru>
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