Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 13:44:00 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: hm@altona.hamburg.com Cc: fyeung@fyeung5.netific.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ISDN devices supported? Message-ID: <199602102044.NAA16589@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <m0tlDoA-000010C@ernie.altona.hamburg.com> from "Hellmuth Michaelis" at Feb 10, 96 12:49:38 pm
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> From the keyboard of francis yeung: > > > Or any ISA ISDN cards that support CAPI which is used by > > the current ISDN driver. The German ISDN cards all support > > CAPI which is developed in Germany. However, I have a hard > > time in ordering one here in US. > > The "CAPI"'s supplied for the ISDN boards are TSR's for MS-@#$ and are > not usable under FreeBSD. > > Some intelligent ISDN boards have a more or less stripped down CAPI in > firmware, but these implementations have not much in common with the > CAPI specs and are provided to make the programming of the real CAPI > easier. > > There is a CAPI 1.1 and 2.0 spec available for Unix, but it is STREAMS > based and - because CAPI is a spec to interface a particular hardware > to a programming interface - it must be written for every piece of > hardware. > > So i doubt we ever get a CAPI interface for *BSD although it would be > a very good thing to have. Depends. Is there a NetWare server ODI CAPI driver for the card? How about a 32 bit NDIS CAPI driver for the card? If the answer to either one is "yes", then you can use it under BSD, assuming you implement a kernel environment capable of accepting protected mode ODI drivers or protected mode NDIS drivers. This wouldn't be as hard as it sounds. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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