Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 12:30:00 -0700 From: "Brett Glass at POST-IW1"<Brett_Glass_at_POST-IW1@infoworld.com> To: erich@lodgenet.com, sgkruk@barrow.uwaterloo.ca Cc: Brett_Glass_at_POST-IW1@infoworld.com, agonzalez@starbase.globalpc.net, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Digiboard PC/16e problem Message-ID: <88256444.006B91DE.00@IWND1.infoworld.com>
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New Text Item: Re: Digiboard PC/16e problem I hope that Comtrol DOES publish FreeBSD drivers and get them included in FreeBSD 2.2-R. Last I heard from them, they had a beta-quality driver for their ISA cards only. Management seemed doubtful that it was worth the investment to develop other drivers or even complete development on the one they have. I tried to explain that their target market -- ISPs -- were largely running on free UNIX, whereas the markets on which they expending their efforts (NT and Netware) had lower volumes, fierce competition, and high promotional costs. Don't know if my explanations did any good. (Some companies are so blinded by Microsoft that they're unable to recognize that a much bigger market lies on other platforms.) But we can hope.... --Brett ---------- "Serge G. Kruk" writes: > >What is my best route? >New (from where?) driver for Digiboard cards? >New card? If so, which one? I personally like the Stallion cards (www.stallion.com), the driver is written unofficially by a Stallion employee. Engineering level support has been good. We've got at least two machines running 16 modems off Stallions. Comtrol called me the other day saying that they now had a BSD driver. They were going to ship me a card to eval. Their Rocketport gets pretty good reviews in the trade-rags... (maybe their marketing dept is better than their engineering ;-)) The Cyclades is pretty well supported too. I've only got two 8-ports, so I can't say about the 16's. > >Serge > eric. -- erich@lodgenet.com http://rrnet.com/~erich erich@rrnet.com SMTPOriginator: owner-freebsd-hardware@freefall.freebsd.org
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