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> > On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, Don Perley wrote: > > > > One of the reasons I bought my 755 was because it had the MWave, > > specifically for the 28.8 modem. While I would like to run Linux (or > > Solaris) on it, I can't justify buying a PCMCIA modem just so I can run my > > OS of choice... If I thought I could do it, I'd try to reverse engineer > > the driver, but I have found that I can not yet walk on water. > > Since I do not have a TP with MWave, I've never tried this. However, > for experienced Linux users, I would recommend the following "hack" > which might have a small (and I stress, _small_) chance of working: > > 1. Boot DOS and run any MWave modem initialization. > 2. Run LoadLin to boot into Linux. > 3. Run DOSEmu and open a DOS session, loading the necessary MWave > drivers to use the modem. > 4. Run a DOS comm package under DOSEmu. Tried it over a year ago. Didn't work. Traced it down to the MWave stuff wanting to use the DMA controller which dosemu can't and won't let it do. I think the MWave drivers use DMA to download the programs to the MWave processor. > (Steps 1-2 may be redundant, in which case booting directly into Linux > using a bootdiskor LILO should be fine). > > I'd appreciate hearing whether this actually works... > > Also, if the MWave is hardware register compatible with Sound Blaster * > cards, the following procedure should get you sound under Linux: > > 1. Boot DOS and run MWave sound initialization. > 2. Run LoadLin to boot into Linux (kernel sound config should match > the DOS sound config). This does work fine! > Regards, > Dave. -- Brad Pepers Proud supporter of Linux and Ramparts Management Group Ltd. Caldera in Canada! ramparts@agt.net http://www.agt.net/public/ramparts Linux rules!