Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 10:21:45 +0200 (METDST) From: hm@hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) To: David Hedley <david@inty.net> Cc: freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FRITZ!Card 2.0 Message-ID: <20010913082145.7F88F532@hcswork.hcs.de> In-Reply-To: <NEBBKDONLMHNHKCKHHAIOELNGOAA.david@inty.net> "from David Hedley at Sep 13, 2001 08:43:31 am"
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From the keyboard of David Hedley: > > >From AVM's website, it claims the card is supported under FreeBSD: > > http://www.avm.de/en/news/artikel/FreeBSD.html > > I quote: > > AVM ISDN-Controller A1 and the internal FRITZ!Card models have been > supported since the FreeBSD 4.3 release I quote a bit more: The AVM ISDN-Controller A1 and the internal FRITZ!Card models have been supported since the FreeBSD 4.3 release. For more detailed information, please see http://www.freebsd.org/. Go to http://www.freebsd.org/ , enter ISDN in the search string at the bootom of the page, the first is http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/isdn.html Where you can read: The passive ISDN cards supported are [...] the AVM Fritz!Card PCI V.1.0 and the AVM Fritz!Card PnP. > Obviously if it is supported then it's you guys who are going to know, so > can I assume AVM's statement is wrong? AVM's statement is based on information i sent them and they choosed to make it general enough that it does not has to be changed every month or so _and_ they added a link to more specific information where _i_ can change things if necessary. I see nothing wrong with this. > If so, can people recommend a decent, robust PCI-based ISDN card that works > under FreeBSD 4.x? For me, the AVM Fritz PCI 1.0, the ELSA Microlink PCI and the Winbond based cards are working fine and i can recommend them. It would be nice to have support for the AVM Fritz PCI 2.0 and the Cologne Chip (http://www.colognechip.de/) based cards (which are available cheap everywhere for some years and promise good performance and low overhead) but unless someone does the work himself or pays someone else to do it i don't see support for them to materialize. > We are currently using v1 of the Fritz!Card and have found it to be > excellent but supplies are drying up! Tell AVM. In case everybody in this situation tells AVM, perhaps they either support upgrading the driver, do it themselves or at least give out docs for the hardware (which they don't do right now, instead they supply a binary-only Linux driver for the card). hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis Tel +49 40 55 97 47-70 HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH Fax +49 40 55 97 47-77 Oldesloer Strasse 97-99 Mail hm [at] hcs.de D-22457 Hamburg WWW http://www.hcs.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message
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