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

[Peter Zubaj]

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 at gmx.de wrote:

>On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 03:27:02PM -0700, Stephen Hassard wrote:
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>>Hey Lee,
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>>I was thinking about this a little bit and it's probably easier than it 
>>sounds.
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>>I thought that Alsa already supported MC97 based AMR modems? It looks 
>>like it does with the SND_INTEL8X0M module ..
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>>Also, you wouldn't have to worry about injecting stuff into the 
>>networking layer since modems are just character devices in linux.
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>>The only real part would be the DSP stuff. Their might be some other 
>>projects to do this kind of stuff already ..
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>the slmodemd is already a user space app.
>and it has an alsa mode already. though it did not work when i tested
>it.
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>>later,
>>Steve
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>>Lee Revell wrote:
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>>>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...
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>>>This is almost completely pointless, but might be an interesting CS
>>>project.
>>>
>>>Lee
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