Re: [linux-audio-dev] crazy idea...

Hi,

It would be fantastic if that crazy idea could be done! In my opinion a
big limitation for greater adoption of linux on third world countries
like Colombia where a broadband connection is still a luxury, is the
limited modem support.
I recently tried to find linux compatible modems and it was impossible
(or too expensive -around US$50) in the local market, so I had to ask my
brother (who lives in the US) to get me one from ebay which can cost
around US$15 incl. shipping.

Cheers,
Andrés

 On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 02:04, Peter Zubaj wrote:
> slmodem is for SmartLink modems (it has this in licence) and it contans
> binary part - it can not run on PPC or other processors.
> I've seen somewhere project to write software modem, but it was not
> finished and abandoned.
>
> Peter Zubaj
>
> torbenh@email-addr-hidden wrote:
>
> >On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 03:27:02PM -0700, Stephen Hassard wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hey Lee,
> >>
> >>I was thinking about this a little bit and it's probably easier than it
> >>sounds.
> >>
> >>I thought that Alsa already supported MC97 based AMR modems? It looks
> >>like it does with the SND_INTEL8X0M module ..
> >>
> >>Also, you wouldn't have to worry about injecting stuff into the
> >>networking layer since modems are just character devices in linux.
> >>
> >>The only real part would be the DSP stuff. Their might be some other
> >>projects to do this kind of stuff already ..
> >>
> >>
> >
> >the slmodemd is already a user space app.
> >and it has an alsa mode already. though it did not work when i tested
> >it.
> >
> >
> >
> >>later,
> >>Steve
> >>
> >>Lee Revell wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>I had the idea the other day that you could theoretically implement a
> >>>Winmodem driver as a JACK client. All you would need is an ALSA driver
> >>>that exposes the hardware part of the modem as a sound card, a mechanism
> >>>to inject the resulting bits back into the kernel networking layer, and
> >>>the DSP knowledge to implement a software modem...
> >>>
> >>>This is almost completely pointless, but might be an interesting CS
> >>>project.
> >>>
> >>>Lee
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
Received on Mon Apr 18 00:15:05 2005