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Date:      Tue, 10 Aug 1999 07:47:34 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Avalon Books <avalon@advicom.net>
To:        Brian Skrab <bgs@geeks.valleyip.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ISDN TA --> Faster serial port...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908100744270.25698-100000@vespucci.advicom.net>
In-Reply-To: <199908100551.WAA19102@geeks.valleyip.net>

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On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Brian Skrab wrote:

> 	The latest addition to my system is a 3Com ImpactIQ ISDN Terminal
> 	Adapter.  I have been running it off the standard serial port found
> 	on the motherboard, but the i/o speed on it is limited to 115k.  I
> 	would like to take full advantage of the 128k provided by the ISDN
> 	line, and will require a high-speed serial card to do so.  Does
> 	anyone know of a single or dual port (please, not 4/8 port) serial
> 	card that will support an i/o speed higher than 115k?  I have a
> 	TurboCom card that came with the TA, but it uses a 16750 UART that
> 	FreeBSD doesn't recognize.  As usual, the drivers that the
> 	manufacturer of the card provides are Windoze, along with a Linux
> 	kernel, which is useless to me (right?).

   I use a Boca IO650 card with my ISDN TA (an Alpha Telecom UTA120). Its
a plain-jane ISA dual 16C650 serial card that runs quite nicely under
FreeBSD 2.2.x (mine has for over a year now). And it didn't even cost me
very much (something like $30, as I recall).

--R. Pelletier
Sys Admin, House Galiagante
http://advicom.net/~avalon/house.html



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