Some ideas about free_modem_core for all PCI/CNR modems. It will be able to connect to ISP at least 14.4K. It will like using VESA generic driver for graphics cards. You can use it for installation and for basic use, but if you want to use all functionality like 3D acceleration and video stream decompressing by hardware you need to use propietary drivers from Nvidia and ATI. The generic modem driver modem driver daemon will be included with major Linux distribution by default. And this can be use during instalation and for download propietary/non-free drivers and firmware. May be some companies will donate a some part of code for his modems. Some modems today haven't a drivers and free_modem_core will can help them to connect to internet. This can be useful also for some embedded devices like security alarm that connect to phone line. Some high speed/compression protocols like V.92 at 56Kb may be have patents. Now we need is create GPL/LGPL project at Sourceforge, Berlios or other site. I think that kernel drivers is need to be GPL, and daemon is LGPL for use with closed source/non-free libryries Information about some open projects in Internet: http://www.softmodem.org/ http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/linmodem.html http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~fisher/modem/ http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pacoo0bm/archive/new_fischer/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/linmodem/ http://www.linmodems.org/ http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/ http://iaxmodem.sourceforge.net/ = -- Powered By Outblaze
