Don't we need a lot of modem drivers for that? So also if dial up is really still used by a none negligible number I would not declare it as a blocker. I would more like to reduce the blocker list then to increase it.
Regards,
Clemens
ps. every day we have to maintain two compiler / binary compatibility cost
Haiku resources. As earlier we release R1 as more resources we have for
other stuff...
Am 24.11.2010, 16:56 Uhr, schrieb Karl vom Dorff <karlvd@xxxxxxxxx>:
BeOS, as far as I'm aware, had some modem dial-up capability. Haiku's dial-up capability? This to me, would seem to be a blocker. I'm looking at some statistics (although I don't know how reliable) http://blog.wasiqansari.com/index.php/2010/02/35-of-us-internet-still-on-dialup/If the amount of U.S users still on dial-up = around 1/3 of the population (~100 million users), it begs the question, how many rely on dial-up in Asiaand Africa? I recently made a comment about this at Haikuware here<http://haikuware.com/bounty-discussion/1684-campaign-for-pppoe-support21#1685>, and almost immediately saw some commits from phoudoin (great thanks!).Does any one else see this as a potential priority? Myself, I haven't been on dial-up for a decade. The absence of a way to get on the internet on anoperating system though, would be an automatic big fat X/NO. An operating system without an internet connection is useless - to me. If the above usage statistics are true though (as of the third quarter,2009) then I think this may be a priority for Haiku. It's good to see it'sbeing worked on though: Commit by phoudoin :: r39587 /haiku/trunk/src/add-ons/kernel/network/devices/ dialup/dialup.cpp: Initial send_data() support. Commit by phoudoin :: r39582 /haiku/trunk/src/add-ons/kernel/network/devices/ dialup/dialup.cpp: Add initial up & down support. Commit by phoudoin :: r39581 /haiku/trunk/ (13 files in 11 dirs): Switch link speed unit to bit/s to support low bitrate speed too (hello slow dialup line...) Commit by phoudoin :: r39580 /haiku/trunk/src/add-ons/kernel/network/devices/ dialup/dialup.cpp:Store AT* strings and termios config directly within dialup_device struct.*Commit by phoudoin :: r39576 /haiku/trunk/src/add-ons/kernel/network/devices/ (4 files in 2 dirs): Add skeleton/WIP dialup network device...*
