[hcflinux] Re: [hsflinux] What about FREE Sortware and people colaboration!?!?

[Marc Boucher]

Don't forget that it will be difficult for Conexant to justify the cost
of developing/maintaining Linux drivers until their direct customers
(who are essentially the computer and modem OEM vendors) ask for linux
support.

So talking to your computer or modem manufacturer about linux drivers could
be much more effective than complaining directly to Conexant, who have
actually been very helpful and cooperative in recent times.

Marc

On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 10:26:07AM -0400, Dana Lacoste wrote:
> I think it's significant to note the following :
> 
> On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 10:05, Marc Boucher wrote:
> 
> > 1) Linuxant isn't Conexant. Conexant is a semiconductor company 
> > producing the modem chipsets, primarily for use with Windows.
> > Linuxant is an independent company trying to make this technology
> > available to Linux users.
> 
> 
> If you want to get upset about not having free drivers,
> you have the following options available to you :
> 
> 1 - Complain to Conexant for not making those drivers
> 2 - Buy a non-Conexant product
> 3 - Make your own driver
> 
> As Linuxant has given us a driver without which we could not
> use our modems, I have to give Marc a lot of thanks : he's
> managed to get a driver available to the Linux community that
> works and lets us use hardware that we would otherwise not
> be able to use.  He's taken a rather unco-operative company
> (Conexant) and made a driver available to us that lets us
> use (some rather crappy) hardware in our chosen OS.
> 
> To give you some background on my usage :
> I needed a 3.3v PCI compatible modem that would work in Linux.
> That was an absolute requirement : free vs. pay-for was not
> an issue.
> 
> Now I'm able to use the new Universal ZPX model from MultiTech
> and I don't need to use the Linuxant stuff any more, but I would
> have been more than willing to pay for it : Marc has to earn a
> living too, don't you think?
> 
> I liken this issue to that of www.4front-tech.com.
> They produce, BY FAR, the best Unix sound drivers available.
> Period.
> Easy to use, but not free.  The only way to make an Audigy 2
> work reliably under FreeBSD though.  If you're under a situation
> where the hardware vendor who supplies the drivers won't supply
> the drivers for the OS you use (this is a valid reason to get mad
> at a hardware vendor) then don't get mad at the only person who
> _will_ work with you and _will_ supply the drivers to let you
> use that hardware!
> 
> Thanks for the work, Marc.  I won't be using a Conexant chipset
> modem any time soon, but that's their fault, not yours.
> 
> Dana Lacoste
> Ottawa, Canada
> 
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