please tell that the guys at lucent. They distributed an "inofficial"
linux driver (binary only) for that f** lt winmodem that you can find in
every laptop nowadays and that never runs under linux!
Maybe the guys@lucent one day understand that there are actually people
running linux and would like to get that winmodem running (the hardware
of that modem is really _NOT_ windows-specific)
(I know that I could buy a "real" modem and live in peace ;-)
Reto
Kurt Garloff wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 06:53:48AM +0200, Alex wrote:
> > I would like to know the match in 2.4 for those kernel symbols:
> >
> [ ... ]
> >
> > I need this because I would like to build a module for maintain
> > compatibility with a binary-only winmodem driver (lt)
>
> Shrug!
>
> Linux was never designed to provide any binary compatibility for modules.
> NEVER. Modules are likely to break if you upgrade from one stable kernel
> (2.2.15, e.g.) to the next one (2.2.16). Even between kernel compiles with
> different settings, some modules may break.
> In pratice you may be successful with one module for all 2.2.1x kernels by
> sheer luck.
>
> _Binary_ compatibility between a 2.2 and a 2.4 module is almost impossible
> unless the module just does nothing ...
>
> Regards,
> --
> Kurt Garloff <kurt@garloff.de> [Eindhoven, NL]
> Physics: Plasma simulations <k.garloff@phys.tue.nl> [TU Eindhoven, NL]
> Linux: SCSI, Security <garloff@suse.de> [SuSE Nuernberg, FRG]
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