Re: USB Modem
From: Sergey Akifyev (asa_at_gascom.ru)
Date: 06/20/03
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To: Jeandre du Toit <jeandre@itvs.co.za> Date: 20 Jun 2003 16:41:17 +0400
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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