Date: 15 Apr 1999 22:36:41 +0200 From: Julien Oster <sysadm@sysadm.cc> To: Jose Gabriel J Marcelino <gabriel@maquina.com> Cc: freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Support for the Winbond W6692CF Message-ID: <7jn209k4di.fsf@gandalf.midearth.fuzzys.org> In-Reply-To: Jose Gabriel J Marcelino's message of "Thu, 15 Apr 1999 18:35:00 %2B0100 (WET)" References: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9904151731010.10204-100000@einstein.fisica.ist.utl.pt>
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>>>>> "Jose" == Jose Gabriel J Marcelino <gabriel@maquina.com> writes:
[...]
Jose> Doing ISDN solutions I usually went with the Asus I-IN100-ST-DV ISA
Jose> cards that work great and with a great price tag too, but nowadays I
Jose> can't get them anymore as they have been replaced, like everything
Jose> these days, by the PCI version.
Yes. But I think that's okay. But what I really hate, is that some companies
are now tending to not give away their specifications. In example, Ensoniq is
now part of Creative, and the new SoundBlaster Live is practically made by
Ensoniq. Ensoniq makes nice Audio hardware, but they don't give away anything,
so that I have to wait a long time before any OSS driver will be available
(they're just playing around with some bus analyzers to get out how you
control the SoundBlaster Live)... unfortunately, this is not a unique example,
nowadays, so we can be lucky that Winbond gives away their ISDN chipset
speicifications without even the need to ask them. This may change...
Jose> The PCI version of these card includes the mentioned Winbond W6692CF
Jose> chip. It would be great if these were supported as my only other
Jose> option here is going with the much more expensive (and not much
Jose> better) Teles ISA cards.
I must say that I never heard of this chipset before. Has it anything in
common with HiSax or is it something completely different?
Jose> These cards also have a TA analog port built-in, making them even
Jose> more interesting as I can get them for about US$60 here.
Wow! That's nice. I think I would be interested in such a card. Here in
Germany, I paid around 60$ for an Elsa 1000pro/PCI, and besides the fact that
it is a PCI card (which I need), it really has nothing special. It's hardware
is even known to be a little bit buggy (though I don't know what this bugs
exactly are)... could you eventually send me such a card (as soo as the driver
for i4b works), if I can't find it (or not for that price) in Germany? :)
Jose> I'm even tempted to send one of these cards to someone with a
Jose> genuine interest to do the necessary driver. Please let me know who
Jose> wishes to do so.
I would like, but I have much to do... sorry, but I don't think I would have
enough time to build up an ISDN driver from scratch (especially if it has
nothing common with the already implemented chipsets... otherwise, it wouldn't
be from scratch, though). Any other volunteers?
Jose> I think I can't do it myself as my C knowlegde is very dusty (doing
Jose> too much Perl programming these days), I have no experience with
Jose> kernel-mode programming and I don't understand the specifics of the
Jose> ISDN subsystem. It would probably take me a long long time to do it
Jose> :-)
Well, if we can't find anybody else, I might _try_ it ;-)
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