* PPP PCI client ??
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@ 1999-01-07 0:22 ` Vinai Roopchansingh
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From: Vinai Roopchansingh @ 1999-01-07 0:22 UTC (permalink / raw
To: linuxppc-user; +Cc: linuxppc-dev
Users and Guru's,
I have a "wish" for Linux and I am willing to undertake the investment
of time and resources to _TRY_ to get this to work, if it isn't already
happening ..
As my subject says, I was wondering if anyone out there has hacked out
a Linux PPP client that would use the new PCI modems that some makers
are producing. I would like to get my modem "internal" on my 7500 and
getting this to work would be the only way.
I have a couple of questions that I would like answers to before I dive
into this ... Has this been done already and is there a chipset for the
modems that are more "favoured" that others (I know that Rockwell is
pretty much the gold standard now for modem chipsets) ??
Is it possible, with the current implementation of PPP, to deal with the
hardware access just from the client end (from a program such as ezppp)
instead of diving into the kernal (providing the kernal already gives me
access to the PCI bridge) ??
TIA.
Vinai
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* RE: PPP PCI client ??
@ 1999-01-07 2:18 Aaron Burt (Volt Computer)
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From: Aaron Burt (Volt Computer) @ 1999-01-07 2:18 UTC (permalink / raw
To: 'Vinai Roopchansingh', linuxppc-user; +Cc: linuxppc-dev
> From: Vinai Roopchansingh [mailto:vroopcha@post.its.mcw.edu]
(snip)
> Has this been done already and is there a chipset for the
> modems that are more "favoured" that others?
The Linux-kernel folks get this question pretty often. As far as anyone can
tell, all of the PCI internal modems use weird proprietary serial ports or
are proprietary Winmodem-type devices. Until specs are released or
reverse-engineered (many have tried), and someone goes to the trouble of
writing kernel drivers, no go. But if someone does it on x86-PCI (most
likely platform), it should adapt to PPC-PCI. And if it looks like a modem,
PPP will use it.
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