Re: Please!! Help me to help us to use WinModems in Linux

Alex Belits (abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us)
Fri, 9 Apr 1999 05:03:47 -0700 (PDT)


On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Tracy Camp (Hurrah) wrote:

> > Otherwise what you are asking for turns into a huge reverse-engineering
> > project with the only result that some people will be able to use some
> > particular brand of crappy modems (because other brands will have to be
> > reverse-engineered separately). Sorry, most of people have better things
> > to do.
> You miss my point I think. The original poster seemed to have specs and
> was willing to do some work. I'm just saying why hinder people that want
> to do less than mainstream work?

If there is a possibility to do that work then there is no point in
discouraging people from doing it. Existence of drivers is not some kind
of endorsement of bad hardware.

-- 
Alex

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