Modem gives error

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Correct me if I am wrong, but in my understanding, most of these users
who want to run an el-cheapo class-1 fax modem are probably on Linux.
There is nothing wrong with that; I am on Linux much of the time also.
Since Linux is free, they want to be able to use the cheapest hardware
and free fax modem support. 

Given that Linux is the most likely target for class-1 fax support,
wouldn't it be possible to write a kernel driver as a loadable Linux
module to support class-1 fax modems? I know this would not help
other OS users, but I am just suggesting how one of these users could
do a robust class-1 Linux-only extenion to mgetty. The only way to
get real-time performance from a non-realtime Unix is by a true kernel
device driver. 

How could mgetty interface to such a driver in a standard way so that
compatible drivers could be written for different Unix OS's? I
realize the worms are already crawling out of the can, but if it is OK
to write different modem drivers to handle different modems, it should
be equally OK to write different kernel drivers to handle class-1
faxing under different versions of Unix.

Although messy and complicated, at least this approach should be
reliable.

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