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Intel 536ep
My buddy wants to setup an answering machine on his computer, which runs Fedora 4.
I took him to a computer store and asked for a completely hardware modem that doesn't depend on windows only drivers, so the guy sold me an Intel 536ep... a fully fledged WINmodem.
Fortunately, Intel provides linux drivers on their site. Unfortunately, most of them are made for 2.4 kernels (FC4 uses 2.6). I downloaded the source for the latest version of the driver and tried to install it, but ran into some problems. It turns out the driver compiles fine under gcc 3.4, but FC4 uses 4.0 (which uses a stricter version of C). The only help I could find while searching through message boards is to simply rewrite the darn driver, changing all the foo's to bar's.
(As a side note, gcc4.0 can't even compile menuconfig for the linux kernel with out serious modifications)
I dunno who the foo bar was that wrote this darn driver, but I've been all over the web searching for a patch or an updated driver or something with no help.
I know I'm one of those guys that everybody hates because I wouldn't have a snowballs chance in hell of doing anything useful in linux without RPM and deb's, but it would really be helpful if somebody could offer some useful advice (an RPM, a patch, the email address of the foo at intel that wrote sloppy code...)
Thank you so much in advance.
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