Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 09:50:58 -0500 From: "Eric L. Hernes" <erich@lodgenet.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: danny@panda.hilink.com.au, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Serial multiport cards recommendations wanted Message-ID: <199704101450.JAA00143@jake.lodgenet.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 09 Apr 1997 19:42:38 MDT." <3.0.32.19970409193813.006cd750@lariat.org>
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Brett Glass writes: >At 09:16 AM 4/10/97 +1100, you wrote: > >>Comtrol (www.comtrol.com) has FreeBSD drivers for the Rocketports, but the >driver >>is not yet perfect. > >When I called Comtrol less than a month ago, they stated -- emphatically -- >that FreeBSD was not supported and that there were NO plans to do so in the >future. A manager in charge of development said that this was the final word. >What gives? The `manager in charge of development' must not know all the facts, or there's another comtrol somewhere... A year or so ago, I told comtrol that I couldn't evaluate their boards without a FBSD driver, they're pretty anxious to sell us cards, we buy ~50-100/month. A couple months ago I got a call from comtrol, that they had a FBSD driver, and were willing to send evaluation units. I got an eval board, I've seen the driver work. Last week I got another call asking if I needed more cards or anything else. amir@comtrol.com (Amir Farah) wrote the driver, and seems willing to maintain, and improve it. Mike Winkelman <mikew@comtrol.com>, is our sales rep, he seems to know about the FreeBSD project, and was interested in getting their driver committed to the FreeBSD tree... > >--Brett Glass > eric. -- erich@lodgenet.com http://rrnet.com/~erich erich@rrnet.com
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