From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 11 23:02:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA02823 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 23:02:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from cls.net (freeside.cls.de [192.129.50.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA02817 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 23:02:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail.cls.net (Smail3.1.29.1) from allegro.lemis.de (192.109.197.134) with smtp id ; Fri, 12 Jan 96 07:02 GMT From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Reply-To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Received: (grog@localhost) by allegro.lemis.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id IAA20378; Fri, 12 Jan 1996 08:01:41 +0100 Message-Id: <199601120701.IAA20378@allegro.lemis.de> Subject: Re: Status of ISDN drivers To: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 08:01:39 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers), isdn@muc.ditec.de (FreeBSD ISDN Distribution List) In-Reply-To: <9601111640.AA07030@cssmuc.frt.dec.com> from "garyj@frt.dec.com" at Jan 11, 96 05:40:02 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk garyj@frt.dec.com writes: > > > wlloyd@mpd.ca writes: >> I've been reading through the past archives for ISDN card information, >> as well as scanning through the source tree. >> >> So far all I've found is that the current ISDN PC card drivers for Dr. >> Neurhaus(sp?) seem to be out of date and going nowhere. >> >> So that seems to leave the following options to do ISDN on Freebsd. >> >> 1) Buy Ascend 25/50 etc. expensive but good option. >> 2) Buy Dr. Nuerhaus card and hope it all works out. >> 3) Get a TA like a Bitsurfr/Adtran etc. >> >> Is that the true situation, or am I missing something? >> >> Is anyone working on drivers for the low cost PC plug-n-play ISDN boards >> from Digiboard or Livingston? >> > most of the active ISDN users/developers are located in Germany. There's > a rather active mail list here (all in German). > > There's now a driver available for the Teles/Creatix card. The Teles low-end > (passive) card is supposedly available in the US (Jordan posted something > to one of the lists a few months ago, check the archive). This driver has > not been put into the source tree yet, but I and several people I know > of are using it. > > Whether any changes need to be made to get the current (not yet released) > ISDN stuff to work in the US is a very open question. I don't know of > anyone in the US who's running our ISDN code. It sure would be nice if > someone could try it out, though ! > > No-one is working on drivers for the Digiboard/Livingston cards, that I > know of. I don't think they're even available or can compete price-wise > with the really low-cost cards already on the market in Europe. > > Your best option is prob. 3. Or write a driver :-) No, your best bet is to test our Teles driver :-) Seriously, we were just discussing yesterday (on the ISDN list) if we couldn't find somebody in the US to test the Teles driver. You would definitely need either full Q.921/Q.931 conformance, but even that wouldn't guarantee that it would work without problems. I'm pretty sure that you would have almost insurmountable problems running with 56 kb/s B channels. If you're just looking for a simple solution which works, this probably isn't it. Otherwise I'm sure we'd be very interested in having you on board. Note, however, what Gary says: the newsgroup itself is in German (I hope I won't be taken to task for forwarding a message in English :-) Greg