From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 11 12:41:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA23418 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 11 Feb 1996 12:41:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA23413 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 1996 12:41:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA18555; Sun, 11 Feb 1996 13:37:18 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199602112037.NAA18555@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: ISDN devices supported? To: fyeung@fyeung5.netific.com (francis yeung) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 13:37:18 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, hm@altona.hamburg.com, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199602102247.WAA25535@fyeung5.netific.com> from "francis yeung" at Feb 10, 96 10:47:44 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > The US Robotics ISDN card support ODI and NDIS (but not ODI CAPI > or NDIS CAPI - I doubt it very much these things exist). > . It looks like to me that they are trying to emulate > an Ethernet card. Where can I locate any info about using > NDIS/ODI with FreeBSD ? If FreeBSD can work with NDIS/ODI, > it should work with Packet Driver (PD) with ease. The ODI driver must be a server-ODI driver. Client-ODI drivers are real-mode drivers. Server-ODI drivers are drivers to allow the use of the card in NetWare itself. The ODI module specification is available from a provoder perspective on the Novell FTP site. Since the interface is "black box", it's possible to write an ODI consumer from the specification (I did this a while ago; it's part of the code that USL claimed when they bought Novell -- I know, I know, but that's what it felt like). It wouldn't be too hard to replicate. Utah State University (usu.edu) has a large NetWare/Novell FTP server with all sorts of tools, specifications, and object file formats. You's have to lok around on archie by host to find it; it should take all of five minutes using the www archie interface. The most recent Cygnus binutils support ODI object formats; Cygnus was paid by Novell to build an NLM develeopement environment, and the ODI drivers are loaded on the server as NLM's. This would probably be a 2-3 month effort, assuming you had two or more ethernet cards that had server-ODI drivers. Probably about 80 hours of work, total. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.