Re: Sangoma S518 PCI ADSL Modem

2007-04-17 Thread Darren Spruell
On 4/17/07, Jeffrey C. Ollie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have seen inside some of the blobs, in my work on the driver. It might be that we > could get Sangoma to release the rest of the blobsource if we showed an interest in caring > for and improving it. They didn't make me provide a DNA s

Re: Sangoma S518 PCI ADSL Modem

2007-04-17 Thread Jeffrey C. Ollie
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 15:51 -0600, Chris 'Xenon' Hanson wrote: > Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote: > > Unfortunately there is quite a bit of code in the Sangoma drivers that > > are binary blobs with no source. It's more than just firmware that is > > loaded onto the card itself, the binary blobs make up a

Re: Sangoma S518 PCI ADSL Modem

2007-04-17 Thread Chris 'Xenon' Hanson
Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote: Unfortunately there is quite a bit of code in the Sangoma drivers that are binary blobs with no source. It's more than just firmware that is loaded onto the card itself, the binary blobs make up a large portion of the kernel modules that run on the host. The drivers work,

Re: Sangoma S518 PCI ADSL Modem

2007-04-17 Thread Jeffrey C. Ollie
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 14:39 -0600, Chris 'Xenon' Hanson wrote: > The driver is open source, and there is an (old) version > of it integrated into the OBSD kernel. I doubt this old driver is something you want to > mess with though. > >There is some sort of special-purpose processor on the card

Re: Sangoma S518 PCI ADSL Modem

2007-04-17 Thread Chris 'Xenon' Hanson
there are no modern / reliable mini-pci dsl modem cards, but there are some PCI ones. The preferred one seems to be the Sangoma S518 PCI ADSL Modem. I've read both that this card does not work in openbsd any longer (ever since they changed the form factor in the latest revision) but others s

Sangoma S518 PCI ADSL Modem

2007-04-17 Thread christian johansson
/ reliable mini-pci dsl modem cards, but there are some PCI ones. The preferred one seems to be the Sangoma S518 PCI ADSL Modem. I've read both that this card does not work in openbsd any longer (ever since they changed the form factor in the latest revision) but others say it does too work. Does a