From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 22 03:05:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA18973 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 22 Mar 1997 03:05:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from peedub.gj.org (newpc.muc.ditec.de [194.120.126.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA18968 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 1997 03:05:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from peedub.gj.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peedub.gj.org (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id MAA15364 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 1997 12:04:40 GMT Message-Id: <199703221204.MAA15364@peedub.gj.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ISDN TA drivers Reply-To: Gary Jennejohn In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 21 Mar 1997 21:37:48 CST." <199703220337.VAA03550@grunt.sands.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 12:04:40 +0000 From: Gary Jennejohn Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ted Spradley writes: >Is anybody working on a device driver for any of the cheap new ISDN terminal >adapters, e.g., Diamond Supra NetCommander, Diva, Cardinal Technology. > >Sure would hate to have to buy an external router, when FreeBSD could the job >so much better. > >Of course, I *could* write the driver myself, if no one's in a hurry >(including me). > do you have any pointers to web pages for Diva and Cardinal Technology ? I found the Diamond page. The NetCommander is just a passive ISDN card, no big deal. These things are a-dime-a-dozen here in Europe, from other vendors, e.g. Teles, Creatix, Dr. Neuhaus, AVM. And they only cost about $ 100. AFAIK the only existing drivers are for said European cards. I'm not aware that other drivers are in the works, but I don't know what's happening outside of Europe. A good starting point might be the existing bisdn stuff, which has support for passive cards. You might want to take a look at it. ftp://ftp.muc.ditec.de/isdn/bisdn0.97.tgz (or something similar) The driver for passive cards is teles.c. - --- Gary Jennejohn Home - Gary.Jennejohn@munich.netsurf.de Work - gjennejohn@frt.dec.com