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Date:      Wed, 7 Jun 1995 19:51:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>
To:        rjbproc@Vir.com (Robert Burns)
Cc:        babkin@hq.tcb.chel.su, bmk@dtr.com, hardware@FreeBSD.org, info@digibd.com
Subject:   Re: Digiboard PC/Xe support?
Message-ID:  <199506072351.TAA27158@hda.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950607191516.333A-100000@zeta> from "Robert Burns" at Jun 7, 95 07:20:54 pm

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Robert Burns writes:
> 
> On Wed, 7 Jun 1995, Peter Dufault wrote:
> > 
> > Serge's last mail was:
> > 
> > > Does somebody wants to test the Digiboard driver ? It's not a complete
> > > driver now, it's a part only. The problem is I began to wrote
> > > this driver and then lost access to the card. I need volunteers
> > > to carry out any experiments. 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 		Serge Babkin
> > > 
> > > ! (babkin@hq.icb.chel.su)
> > > ! Headquarter of Joint Stock Commercial Bank "Chelindbank"
> > > ! Chelyabinsk, Russia
> 
> Serge
> 
> I am very interested in helping you out. I've been trying to work around 
> the linux driver but no luck. I also contacted digiboard but the person
> I spoke with never even heard of Free(Net)BSD.  I have a PcXe (Intelligent)
> 8 port board I have been desperately trying to get working.

There is an "info@digibd.com" address that you can send requests
for a BSD-style copyright driver for FreeBSD support to.

If this fails, I'll sign the DigiBoard NDA and do the work as long as
I don't lose out too much financially.  Someone will have to loan
me a board and I'll fork out the $200.00 for the programming info
but will release the binary-only driver as shareware, confident
that at least some of the FreeBSD crowd will reimburse me for the
support time.  We've had a constant stream of requests for DigiBoard
support, with about five this week.

The support is the real issue for a binary-only driver: the support
headache will fall on the individual willing to sign the NDA with
Digi.

Peter

-- 
Peter Dufault               Real Time Machine Control and Simulation
HD Associates, Inc.         Voice: 508 433 6936
dufault@hda.com             Fax:   508 433 5267



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