From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 15 1:17:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from server.soekris.com (soekris.com [216.15.61.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99C4D37B40D; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 01:17:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from soekris.com (1.4.soekris.com [192.168.1.4] (may be forged)) by server.soekris.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id BAA11809; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 01:17:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from soren@soekris.com) Message-ID: <3BCA9B7E.BBEC1C7D@soekris.com> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 01:17:02 -0700 From: Soren Kristensen Organization: Soekris Engineering X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: MurrayTaylor , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WanIC 405 _IS_ End of Life -- what are the (netgraph) based alternatives?? References: <000001c1554a$e922d700$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Everybody, I've been following the sync serial board discussion a little, and it seems like that there's no source for inexpensive sync serial boards with FreeBSD, or boards with documentation to make a driver, or from companies with a good policy towards open source and/or FreeBSD.... The only one close seems to be the cronyx, they seems to have full source code, but their boards is not easily available in the US, or available with T1 interfaces. So maybe I should just make one, and sell for cheap, I need them anyway for my small boxes (see http://www.soekris.com).... The most common chip for the PCI bus, the 4 channel Infinion DSCC4 PEB20534 (used by cronyx and others...) cost around $60 in small volume, so the basic 2 ch board would probably go for around $250 qty 1. Boards with more channels or integrated T1/E1 phys will be a little higher. FreeBSd drivers should be relatively easy, t.ex based on the cronyx drivers, they're even netgraph enabled.... I would then be happy to supply hardware and documentation to somebody that could do and maintain the drivers. Regards, Soren Kristensen Soekris Engineering To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message