From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Apr 28 13:10:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA21587 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 28 Apr 1996 13:10:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mirage.nlink.com.br (mirage.nlink.com.br [200.238.120.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA21478 Sun, 28 Apr 1996 13:09:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from luiz@localhost) by mirage.nlink.com.br (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA20613; Sun, 28 Apr 1996 17:12:31 -0300 Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 17:12:30 -0300 (EST) From: Luiz de Barros To: "Eric L. Hernes" cc: Chris Peltier , "'FreeBSD-ISP@FreeBSD.org'" , "'FreeBSD-Hardware@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Re: Comtrol Rocketports In-Reply-To: <199604281547.KAA19281@jake.lodgenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 28 Apr 1996, Eric L. Hernes wrote: I have seen this in the postings, but as it was almost a month ago i thought maybe they have forgotten your company. If you have any news about this, please let me know. A FreeBSD driver of comtrol would make our life quite easier here. > > check the hardware archives for a posting > I send a while back. Here's my cliff-notes: > > Comtrol was drooling over a contract with > lodgenet, we buy 75-100 8port serial cards > a month. I told the salesman that without > a FreeBSD driver, their cards were totally > useless to us, he said that he'd look into > it and see if an engineer would port the > bsdi driver to fbsd. That was over a month > ago, I'm still waiting... > > but on the good side... If you want a serial > card in the moderate to high performance > range, check out Stallion Technologies. They > have several cards that work well, and on top > of it, they're the only serial board vendor > to have a FreeBSD driver actually written > by one of their employees. I will check the specifications of these boards. > > other intelligent cards that we have drivers > for are cyclades, digi 8e, riscom, and specialix. > did I miss any? I use cyclades here with success. > > I've seen the cyclades work. We're not > having any obvious problems with the digi, but > it's just a 9600-38400bps hardware controller. > I haven't tested the riscom or specialix. As we would like to use the boards for handling modem calls at 33600bps digi would be a bad choice for us. Luiz de Barros Netlink Internet Services > > > Luiz de Barros writes: > >Hi, > >I am beginning to get tired of comtrol. I am thinking of changing all my > >comtrols to Cyclades. Lets make a few noise with the comtrol guys, how > >about a few home pages saying " I would like to exchange my Comtrol > >RocketPorts with Cyclades Cycloms, they did a linux driver and do not do > >a FreeBSD one. " . So maybe they will do the driver. I can't understand > >how a company that wants to sell more and more does not do a driver for > >FreeBSD. > >Luiz > > > > > >On Sat, 27 Apr 1996, Chris Peltier wrote: > > > >> I also talked to Comtrol about FreeBSD in Feb.. They told me that they would > >> never > >> do the port. As you said it's available for BSDi. The BSDi port won't work > >> for FreeBSD, > >> people have tried. > >> > >> --Chris Peltier > >> NetCarrier, a division of IEC Technologies > >> > > >