Mwave and Linux

[cph@martigny.ai.mit.edu (Chris Hanson)]

   Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 08:47:35 -0700 (PDT)
   From: Michael Fukatsu <mfukatsu@hertz.elee.calpoly.edu>

   I also have a 755CD running Linux.  You can get the Soundblaster 
   emulation to work by booting to DOS (This loads the DSP info into the 
   mwave chip) and then use loadlin to boot to Linux.  As far as I know, 
   (and I've been searching for a while) there is no support for the modem 
   features in Linux yet.  I heard rumors that there were 1 or 2 guys 
   working on it but I haven't been able to track them down.  As for now, 
   the 755CD is modem-less under Linux.


Probably you heard the rumor from me.

Here is the only substantiation that I have for this; from my point of
view this moves it from rumor to vaporware.

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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 00:54:24 +0100
From: Joachim Seifert <Joachim.Seifert@Physik.Uni-Muenchen.de>
To: Adam Megacz <kalessin@netcom.com>, Alvin Starr <alvin@eyepoint.com>,
        Andreas Muellers <am@ida.ing.tu-bs.de>,
        Brad Pepers <pepersb@cuug.ab.ca>,
        "Bruce W. Bigby (963081)" <bigby@ess.mc.xerox.com>,
        COMITALE LEO <comital@ecf.toronto.edu>,
        Chris Hanson <cph@martigny.ai.mit.edu>,
        DE VITO Eric 146599 <DEVITO@cyborg.cea.fr>,
        David Fox <fox@GRAPHICS.CS.NYU.EDU>, Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>,
        Jeff Bryer <mwave@watson.mbb.sfu.ca>, Joe Edmonds <joee@netcom.com>,
        John Baltzer <jbaltzer@vulcan.inlink.com>,
        John Brock <jbrock@panix.com>, "M.L.A. Lammerse" <shofukamachi@pi.net>,
        Marek Teichmann <teichman@SLINKY.CS.NYU.EDU>,
        Pim van Meurs <pim@nepac.ucsd.edu>,
        Raul Miller <rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu>,
        Sanjay Seth <sseth@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>,
        Thomas E Zerucha <zerucha@shell.portal.com>,
        Thorsten Koch <tkoch@informatik.hu-berlin.de>,
        aoster <alster@interport.net>
Subject: Mwave for Linux IS coming !

Dear Friends,

Some of you might have lost hope, but their is good news ---

Mwave Support for Linux is coming. 

Hannu Savolainen (The Author of the TASD (former Voxware)
Sounddriver) is going to port the DSP-Loader 
and the sound interface for us.

Hannu Savolainen wrote:
>
> I'm very much interested in implementing mwave support to the sound
> driver. My goal is to implement the driver in a way that is compatible
> with IBM's OS/2, DOS and Windows drivers so that the same MWave modules
> could be used in Linux. This also should make it possible to use standard
> MWave development tools (MWave SDK) in developing these modules for
> Linux.

What is still needed is people who would do the interfacing to the
Modem,Fax,(ISDN?,Voice?) Services of the Mwave-System.Hopefully
using the IBM-DSP code this should not be too difficult, as one
should only reproduce the handling the Windows(OS/2, DOS)-drivers do.
It would be very good to have some volunteers for this matter,
before searching help from IBM (In fact the lack of a lead programmer
made me hesitating in contacting IBM -- this problem is now gone !).

Also Linux-Friendly contact addresses from Hardware manufacturers (IBM,Miro)
might be handy now.

This is List as it stands now, if you'd like to add/(remove) yourself or friends.
Please drop me a note.
If the project gets going I'll devote a web-page to it.

interested are:
aoster <alster@interport.net>
alien@essex.ac.uk (Adrian F Clark)
pepersb@cuug.ab.ca (Brad Pepers)
Alvin Starr <alvin@eyepoint.com>
David Fox <fox@GRAPHICS.CS.NYU.EDU>
DE VITO Eric <DEVITO@cyborg.cea.fr>
pim@nepac.ucsd.edu (Pim van Meurs)
guyver@pi.net
joee@netcom.com (Joe Edmonds)
John Baltzer <jbaltzer@vulcan.inlink.com>
Thomas E Zerucha <zerucha@shell.portal.com>
tkoch@informatik.hu-berlin.de (Thorsten Koch)
cph@martigny.ai.mit.edu (Chris Hanson)
teichman@SLINKY.CS.NYU.EDU (Marek Teichmann)
Joachim Seifert <seifert@lswes8.ls-wess.physik.uni-muenchen.de>
COMITALE  LEO <comital@ecf.toronto.edu>
Sanjay Seth <sseth@ford.com>
martin@zib-berlin.de
Raul Miller <rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu>
teffta@erie.ge.com (Andrew R. Tefft)
John Brock <jbrock@panix.com>

The following people are also willing to help in the coding:

Hannu Savolainen <hannu@voxware.pp.fi>
DE VITO Eric  146599 <DEVITO@cyborg.cea.fr>
pepersb@cuug.ab.ca (Brad Pepers)
joee@netcom.com (Joe Edmonds)


Yours
                     Joachim

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