[ros-dev] Release 0.2.6

[Alex Ionescu]

Karim Liman-Tinguiri wrote:

>Well,
>
>It wouldn't be that much amount of work since PPP is already above the
>hardware/driver layer: it's a protocol. It therefore means we can
>simply pick the source code for a Linux ppp-enabled dialer such as
>wvdial and adapt it for ReactOS.
>  
>
Not really, you are forgetting RAS and all the other services/features 
which windows provides. It would be a brute and ugly approache, imo, so 
simply copy a Linux dialer.

>After that, all that remains is to finish art yerkers' serial library
>in order to enable usage of at least non-winmodems (for example serial
>port modems) and little touchups (such as writing modem initialization
>scripts etc until the control is passed to ppp).
>
>The big work (this can be deffered from the 0.3 release) will be to
>implement WinModem driver support which is definitely compulsory for
>ReactOS since most windows users that connect through an internal
>modem have a winmodem.
>  
>
Best regards,
Alex Ionescu