From owner-freebsd-isdn Thu Apr 15 13:40:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org Received: from gandalf.midearth.fuzzys.org (cube.sysadm.cc [194.97.92.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B52A14F5A for ; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 13:40:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sysadm@sysadm.cc) Received: (from fuzzy@localhost) by gandalf.midearth.fuzzys.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA00788; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 22:36:42 +0200 (CEST) To: Jose Gabriel J Marcelino Cc: freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Support for the Winbond W6692CF References: X-Emacs: 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid with mule MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.8.2 - "Kosugi") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Julien Oster Date: 15 Apr 1999 22:36:41 +0200 In-Reply-To: Jose Gabriel J Marcelino's message of "Thu, 15 Apr 1999 18:35:00 +0100 (WET)" Message-ID: <7jn209k4di.fsf@gandalf.midearth.fuzzys.org> Lines: 59 X-Mailer: Chao-gnus 6.8.0 (based on Gnus 5.6.22; for SEMI 1.8/FLIM 1.8) Sender: owner-freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >>>>> "Jose" == Jose Gabriel J Marcelino 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 ;-) -- /--/ Julien Oster /---/ www.fuzzys.org <---> www.sysadm.cc /---/ /--/ OpenBSD 2.5 /---/ Greetings from Munich, Germany /---/ /--/ contact me : /---/ talk fuzzy@fuzzys.org or e-Mail me /---/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message