From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Apr 10 07:51:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA10004 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 07:51:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bacall.lodgenet.com (bacall.lodgenet.com [205.138.147.242]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA09990 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 07:51:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mail@localhost) by bacall.lodgenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA25310; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 09:51:33 -0500 Received: from garbo.lodgenet.com(204.124.123.250) by bacall via smap (V1.3) id sma025305; Thu Apr 10 09:51:07 1997 Received: from jake.lodgenet.com (jake.lodgenet.com [10.0.11.30]) by garbo.lodgenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id JAA26390; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 09:51:08 -0500 Received: from jake.lodgenet.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jake.lodgenet.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id JAA00143; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 09:50:59 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199704101450.JAA00143@jake.lodgenet.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0beta 12/23/96 To: Brett Glass cc: danny@panda.hilink.com.au, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Serial multiport cards recommendations wanted In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 09 Apr 1997 19:42:38 MDT." <3.0.32.19970409193813.006cd750@lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 09:50:58 -0500 From: "Eric L. Hernes" Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Brett Glass writes: >At 09:16 AM 4/10/97 +1100, you wrote: > >>Comtrol (www.comtrol.com) has FreeBSD drivers for the Rocketports, but the >driver >>is not yet perfect. > >When I called Comtrol less than a month ago, they stated -- emphatically -- >that FreeBSD was not supported and that there were NO plans to do so in the >future. A manager in charge of development said that this was the final word. >What gives? The `manager in charge of development' must not know all the facts, or there's another comtrol somewhere... A year or so ago, I told comtrol that I couldn't evaluate their boards without a FBSD driver, they're pretty anxious to sell us cards, we buy ~50-100/month. A couple months ago I got a call from comtrol, that they had a FBSD driver, and were willing to send evaluation units. I got an eval board, I've seen the driver work. Last week I got another call asking if I needed more cards or anything else. amir@comtrol.com (Amir Farah) wrote the driver, and seems willing to maintain, and improve it. Mike Winkelman , is our sales rep, he seems to know about the FreeBSD project, and was interested in getting their driver committed to the FreeBSD tree... > >--Brett Glass > eric. -- erich@lodgenet.com http://rrnet.com/~erich erich@rrnet.com