On Tuesday 08 March 2011 00:34:02 jdd wrote:
I have an old winmodem not working in Linux. It there a chance that it is made working if I make a bugreport? Note that the production stopped about 10 years ago and the manufacturer did not disclose the specifications.
yes, this is a very good question. We had long time ago a discussion about for how long a time a hardware have to be supported. ATM nobody wanted to make a hard limit. May be we should say: "no harware older than 10 years" will ever be supported, if it works, so good, if it don't work change it.
May be it could be usefull to have a clear answer (we all, openSUSE community) of what we need on the subject.
I suspect that if I make a bugreport for this modem, I will get a clear answer as "won't fix". Otherwise it is unrealistic to expect that somebody will ever bother to write a driver for a device, whose modern analog costs equivalent of $10 (in my city) and which was positioned by the manufacturer as Windows-only (with more expensive models being compatible with Linux). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org