Conexant modem drivers must be paid for...
 

Linuxant has begun charging for conexant modem Linux drivers.

https://www.linuxant.com/store/faq.php

Your opinions on it????

Looks like a good idea to me. Drivers which cost money are better than nonexistent drivers (which seems to be the alternative, in this case). However, a (win)modem which does not require proprietary software drivers is even better :)

Bastards! I'm planning on getting a new pc tomorrow with another Conexent modem as I know my current HCF one has drivers, but now I need to research and buy two new modems made by non-assholes who wont charge me just to use a device I've paid for. I'm off to uni very soon and dont need complications like this!

Edit: Modest?! $15 per device! I'm not forking out twice the price just to use a damned 56k! I'd rather get BB! Fools!

When I realized that my new comp came with a winmodem, I was relieved to find that I still could make it work under linux, thanks to drivers available at linuxant's site. The driver worked really well, and I really appreciated the work the guys out there had put into it.
But now, it seems that linuxant is only interested in making big bucks by being the sole provider of linux drivers for conexant chipsets. As they themselves say, they cannot release the sources as they have signed NDAs, other licensing issues... I can understand that, but can they explain why they have now chosen to release their latest 'free' driver in the form of a crippled module that only supports 14.4kbps speeds, when their earlier beta supported 56k connects? Because nobody wants to run a 56k at that speed, so they're left with no choice but to purchase the driver from them. The extra features like fax and all are of only secondary concern to most users, what they want is just a modem they can connect to the net with.

I might even have paid for drivers, but 15$ is simply way too much! I think they can offset their development costs by charging far less than that, they're just aiming for a big profit here.

Well, I guess I'll wait for my broadband connection to arrive, so that I can finally junk my modem and upgrade to kernel 2.6 (on which the existing drivers won't compile :mad: )

I hope the guys at linuxant will have more sense and listen to us.

These guys are shooting themselves in the foot. They do not seem to be aware of their competition. One can buy ($9.00) a new lucent LTmodem for less than the price of their driver($15). LTmodem drivers are still free and work with Hylfax and efax version a.

I don't disagree with charging for drivers but I do not think they should remove the older drivers from their website. I do not think they are under any obligation to provide support for the older drivers.

Smartlink provides unsupported drivers and Lucent (now Agere) assists the linux maintainers for that site with periodic updates of the core driver.

LTmodem drivers website

Example of a Cheap Lucent Modem

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there has to be people wit hsf and hcf in tarballs before this new release.

just upload it, its not against the terms

Really?
I am just afraid of closing this thread! Anyway...
Read this please:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...90#post1216290
Cheers,