Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 15:00:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> To: cshenton@apollo.hq.nasa.gov (Chris Shenton) Cc: bmk@dtr.com, hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Digiboard PC/Xe support? Message-ID: <199506071900.PAA23065@hda.com> In-Reply-To: <199506071825.SAA16942@wirehead.hq.nasa.gov> from "Chris Shenton" at Jun 7, 95 02:25:23 pm
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Chris Shenton writes: > > On Wed, 7 Jun 1995 09:42:09 -0700 (PDT), bmk@dtr.com said: > > bmk> I seem to remember that someone was working on support for the Digiboard > bmk> PC/Xe (intelligent) multiport serial cards. Does anyone know what's up > bmk> with this? > > Ditto. We're planning on bringing up a 6-8 line PPP server here on > FBSD. Modii are on the way, but we haven't picked up a multiport > serial board yet. Any suggestions? > (Hi Chris. Haven't seen you since the twilight of Alliant.) Serge Babkin is working on a DigiBoard driver based on the GPL'd Linux driver, however he no longer has hardware and so a like minded hacker may want to help out or take over. I'm personally staying away since I'd rather see a BSD copyright solution and don't want to mess with the Linux driver. Serge's last mail was: > Does somebody wants to test the Digiboard driver ? It's not a complete > driver now, it's a part only. The problem is I began to wrote > this driver and then lost access to the card. I need volunteers > to carry out any experiments. > > > Serge Babkin > > ! (babkin@hq.icb.chel.su) > ! Headquarter of Joint Stock Commercial Bank "Chelindbank" > ! Chelyabinsk, Russia The programming information is available only under NDA with Digiboard, and I didn't want to be in the hot seat for a binary-only distribution and so I instead went with a multiport Boca board for my application. I encourage any Digiboard enthusiasts to register polite interest in a FreeBSD driver with the Digiboard people. I know they have a www.digibd.com with some "fill in the blanks" thing for expressing interest in such things; I don't know of the right e-mail address for that. Since they elected to make a Linux GPL driver available they may decide that a FreeBSD driver is in their interest. Peter -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267
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