In message <E1D3nHr-0001Qh-00@smeg.dsg.stanford.edu>, Jonathan Stone writes:
>In message <20050222220801.54EAE3BFE65@berkshire.machshav.com>,
>"Steven M. Bellovin" writes:
>
>
>>Apart from the other reasons given, one of the mechanisms for 
>>supporting certain winmodems (and in particular the Thinkpad winmodems) 
>>uses a (huge) patch to the alsa driver.
>
>We seem to be agreeing on a userland API shim (and maybe kernel
>changes to support it?). But that won't help with the thinkpad ltmodem
>thingy.
>
>(I thought there was a hunk of binary-only code required for
>the ltmodem, too.  Am I mistaken?)
>
The README for slmodem 2.9.10 says "ALSA modem drivers may be used instead
of proprietary ones (see ALSA mode)."  I couldn't tell you how well it 
works.

		--Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb