Date: Thu, 11 Jan 96 17:40:02 +0100 From: garyj@frt.dec.com To: hackers%freebsd.org@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com Subject: Re: Status of ISDN drivers Message-ID: <9601111640.AA07030@cssmuc.frt.dec.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Bill Lloyd <wlloyd@mpd.ca> of Thu, 11 Jan 96 09:46:32 EST.
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wlloyd@mpd.ca writes: > I've been reading through the past archives for ISDN card information, > as well as scanning through the source tree. > > So far all I've found is that the current ISDN PC card drivers for Dr. > Neurhaus(sp?) seem to be out of date and going nowhere. > > So that seems to leave the following options to do ISDN on Freebsd. > > 1) Buy Ascend 25/50 etc. expensive but good option. > 2) Buy Dr. Nuerhaus card and hope it all works out. > 3) Get a TA like a Bitsurfr/Adtran etc. > > Is that the true situation, or am I missing something? > > Is anyone working on drivers for the low cost PC plug-n-play ISDN boards > from Digiboard or Livingston? > most of the active ISDN users/developers are located in Germany. There's a rather active mail list here (all in German). There's now a driver available for the Teles/Creatix card. The Teles low-end (passive) card is supposedly available in the US (Jordan posted something to one of the lists a few months ago, check the archive). This driver has not been put into the source tree yet, but I and several people I know of are using it. Whether any changes need to be made to get the current (not yet released) ISDN stuff to work in the US is a very open question. I don't know of anyone in the US who's running our ISDN code. It sure would be nice if someone could try it out, though ! No-one is working on drivers for the Digiboard/Livingston cards, that I know of. I don't think they're even available or can compete price-wise with the really low-cost cards already on the market in Europe. Your best option is prob. 3. Or write a driver :-) --- Gary Jennejohn (work) gjennejohn@frt.dec.com (home) Gary.Jennejohn@munich.netsurf.de (play) gj@freebsd.org
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