Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 14:36:38 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: bad@wireless.wdc.net (Bernie Doehner) Subject: Re: Computone Intelliport II driver status? Message-ID: <19970508143638.WV32055@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970506171314.18437A-100000@wireless.wdc.net>; from Bernie Doehner on May 6, 1997 17:16:50 -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970506171314.18437A-100000@wireless.wdc.net>
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As Bernie Doehner wrote: > I have come across a very good deal on Computone Intelliport II's (8 > serial port) ($49.95 a piece). > > Officialy according to Computone there is no FreeBSD driver. Is this > correct? It seems so. > Is it maybe possible to use one of the other multiport > (intelligent) serial drivers with the Intelliport II? Unlikely. While you are at it, please do also write a driver for the Intelliport (the old one) and ATvantage cards, i've got one each. :-) Seriously, i once approached them about device driver documentation, even willing to sign an NDA for it, and while they weren't unfriendly, they finally never sent me the fax with the NDA, and i eventually stopped urging them. Their email RTT was around 7 days or so... But i guess, if you try really hard, you can get them to give you the device docs. All you need is to get them to agree providing the driver itself -- nobody cares then whether you had to sign an NDA for the docs as long as the driver is untainted. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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