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From: "Todd M. Roy" <troy@holstein.com>
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Subject: Re: Lucent WinModem
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If you unpack ltmodem, then source.tar.gz you will find an object
module that you don't have to source to.  Therefor the lucent winmodem
code can't be open source.

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>  From:	"Nadav Har'El" <nyh@math.technion.ac.il>
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>  On Wed, Feb 20, 2002, Alan Cox wrote about "Re: Lucent WinModem":
>  > > How can I use my LT Winmodem on Slackware???
>  > > I have a driver but doesn't work!!!! I don't know why...
>  > 
>  > Ask the binary only driver provider.
>  > 
>  > This list is about free software, and nobody else but the driver vendor
>  > can really help you
>  
>  Actually, I think that Lucent's driver has been open source (I didn't check
>  how "free" their license is) for at least a year now. No more of these ugly
>  binary drivers that you had to apply binary patches (aggh!) to on every
>  kernel version.
>  
>  A quick google search turned out http://www.heby.de/ltmodem as a place you
>  can get the sources.
>  
>  I'm using such a driver on my laptop (Redhat 7.2), I compiled it myself (I
>  don't know why Redhat doesn't include a module for this modem - maybe it
>  isn't "free enough") and the modem is working nicely.
>  
>  -- 
>  Nadav Har'El                        |       Thursday, Feb 21 2002, 9 Adar 5762
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