Linux users of Sony Z1 series

[Greg FABRE <>]

They are some very good closed softwares, with weird licenses, as vmware 
for exemple. But I cannot understand why they want to sell a support for 
an old hardware on a free and open platform. Everybody reported that 
connexant drivers are great, but it is not enough to justify the act of 
selling. 10 bucks is not expensive and I don't think that this software 
is very reliable and interresting according to a production spirit.

Smartlink driver is on a weird license too but it's _opensource_ and 
free. This driver has always been reported as a non working one :) but 
It seems that this soft is very close to a working thing. So hang on or 
code :)

if I haven't any adsl/cable/fiber connection, I usually use a bluetooth 
modem over a gsm phone or an old serial rtc modem over an usb-serial 
adaptator. It's a boring way to solve the problem :)

Just a thing, the "linux fo vaioz1" online documentation is quite 
finished. Still need a "power" part with "suspend and everything else" 
and a lot of correction, and maybe replace informations in differents 
parts, but It's a good stuff for the moment I think.

http://vaioz1.iero.org

Have a nice weekend guys.

Greg.

ps : sorry for my very bad english, I'm definitely not an english native 
speaker..

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Sergei Zuyev wrote:
> Luc Saillard wrote:
>
> > Hsf driver for linux is written has a crappy driver. You can do the same
> > in user land and better, like the smartlink driver. When you see
> > have they parse configuration (1 file per variable, just to represent the
> > same value found in the windows registry), i think the rest of the driver
> > is the same. But the most important problem is when you do a modinfo on the
> > driver, you see the licence is 'GPL', because they have put a GPL\0blabla.
> > So i consider that the driver is GPL as spelled by the modinfo, and you
> > have the right to modify the driver [this is my opinion, and don't do
> > anything with this].
> >
> > Luc
>
>
> I do not know if the driver's implementation is crappy, but it has been 
> working without a glitch for me for the last 3 years: first on Vario F809 and 
> now on Vaio Z1XSP. Moreover, I had all kind of problems with windows driver 
> when I was visiting Moscow last year, where most of the phone lines use pulse 
> dial, and no prob. at all under linux. And after 2 years of use of their free 
> variant of the driver, I hapilly payed the guys these 10$ for the commercial 
> version which, I consider, they well deserved.
> Cheers,
> Sergei
>
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