From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 10 04:02:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA25797 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 10 Feb 1996 04:02:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from casparc.ppp.net (casparc.ppp.net [194.64.12.35]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA25720 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 1996 04:02:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from ernie by casparc.ppp.net with uucp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0tlE0A-000Hz1C; Sat, 10 Feb 96 13:02 MET Received: by ernie.altona.hamburg.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #4) id m0tlDoA-000010C; Sat, 10 Feb 96 12:49 MET Message-Id: From: hm@altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: ISDN devices supported? To: fyeung@fyeung5.netific.com (francis yeung) Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 12:49:38 +0100 (MET) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199602090852.IAA11526@fyeung5.netific.com> from "francis yeung" at Feb 9, 96 08:52:03 am Reply-To: hm@altona.hamburg.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >From the keyboard of francis yeung: > Or any ISA ISDN cards that support CAPI which is used by > the current ISDN driver. The German ISDN cards all support > CAPI which is developed in Germany. However, I have a hard > time in ordering one here in US. The "CAPI"'s supplied for the ISDN boards are TSR's for MS-@#$ and are not usable under FreeBSD. Some intelligent ISDN boards have a more or less stripped down CAPI in firmware, but these implementations have not much in common with the CAPI specs and are provided to make the programming of the real CAPI easier. There is a CAPI 1.1 and 2.0 spec available for Unix, but it is STREAMS based and - because CAPI is a spec to interface a particular hardware to a programming interface - it must be written for every piece of hardware. So i doubt we ever get a CAPI interface for *BSD although it would be a very good thing to have. hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis hm@altona.hamburg.com Hamburg, Europe (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)nstall BSD ?