Porting PCTel modem driver to the 2.6 kernel

Posted Jun 15, 2005 16:59 UTC (Wed) by DMXMusic (guest, #30434)
Parent article: Porting device drivers to the 2.6 kernel

Here is our situation - we have a working 2.4 driver for the PCTel PCT789T chip/modem. I have been looking high and low for a 2.6 version of this driver, but nobody seems to have taken on the task of porting the driver. I'm wondering if anyone can give me a rough time estimate for porting this driver - (it's basically a serial port driver, the dsp code is in a proprietary lib file) - I have done a couple simple Unix / Linux drivers, and worked on windows display drivers for a couple years, although I have not worked on serial port drivers. Any help is very much appreciated!

Our company has something like 5000 of these modems on our devices in the field, and we need to support our customers.

Thanks - Phil Brooks, Philip.Brooks@DMXMusic.com

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Porting modem drivers to the 2.6 kernel

Posted Aug 11, 2005 4:41 UTC (Thu) by dabenavidesd (guest, #31733) [Link]

Hi Phil.
A time ago, i tried to install a driver of my Intel 537 EP that is instaled on my ASUS board for AMD.
The driver was made for working on SuSE 9.1. However when trying to install in this OS, and compiling, following the specified steps, I've got 9 warnings.
The modem works perfectly under Windows XP (another company delivers the driver on CD besides the finished Intel chipset and other applications like Classic Phone Tools http://www.bvrp.com).
The driver is still hung in the Intel´s site, and this release supports 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels.
Attached is my web site where is a historical record of the conversation between me and a support programmer from Intel Support Service; over all, we work in the makefile and correcting the files and dependencies of the used packages, although the trouble is still there.
Im interested in continue working about this kind of troubles. So let me know how can i help.
http://es.geocities.com/dabenavidesd/
email: dabenavidesd@unal.edu.co