Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 13:02:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Litzinger <brian@MediaCity.com> To: sklindsa@io.org (Scott Lindsay) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cyclades driver for FreeBSD Message-ID: <199510122002.NAA23031@MediaCity.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.951012140103.2617B-100000@twirl.io.org> from "Scott Lindsay" at Oct 12, 95 02:07:44 pm
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> Brian,
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> I run a FreeBSD server at work and purchased a multi-port board
> from Cyclades (foolishly believing their sales people when they
> said that FreeBSD was supported). Since the driver supplied with
> FreeBSD 2.0.5 is bogus, I called for tech support. After several
> promises of a new driver, I was given your name and it was suggested
> that I contact you directly.
> That said, what is the state of the driver? Is it stable enough
> to be used in a Beta environment? Are you working on it?
The driver supplied in FreeBSD (cy) IMHO and others doesn't work too
well.
I've made available a seperate driver (cyb) which is a complete
production quality driver in use by many people including several
ISPs, and has been production quality for over a year now.
You can ftp it from:
ftp://ftp.mediacity.com/pub/brian/cyb2.0fb.shar.gz
You'll need to remember two things to use this driver:
1. Reverse pins 4 and 20 in your cables. Cyclades got them
backwards in their designs.
2. use mgetty instead of getty with modems.
Good Luck, and feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Brian Litzinger
brian@mediacity.com
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