From owner-freebsd-isdn Thu Mar 7 7:16:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wearix.com (lorien.wearix.com [193.197.4.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9491137B8F5 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 07:13:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from hry.muc.wearix.com (ad96e1d2b.dsl.de.colt.net [217.110.29.43]) by mail.wearix.com (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.3 (i386)) with ESMTP id EE8593532; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 16:13:00 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: ifpi2 [WAS: Re: Elsa QuickStep/Microlink PCI] From: Harald Schmalzbauer To: Andrew Gordon Cc: freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20020307144953.X18069-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk> References: <20020307144953.X18069-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-SmZZckyl7ybgPdMEBLMG" X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0 (Preview Release) Date: 07 Mar 2002 16:15:50 +0100 Message-Id: <1015514152.13546.10.camel@hry.muc.wearix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --=-SmZZckyl7ybgPdMEBLMG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am Do , 2002-03-07 um 16.02 schrieb Andrew Gordon: > On 7 Mar 2002, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: >=20 > > Am Mi , 2002-03-06 um 22.43 schrieb Andrew Gordon: > > *SNIP* > > > One is the AVM Fritz!Card PCI version 2 (version 1 is 5V-only), now > > > supported by the ifpi2 driver. > > > > Hmm, I missed that. Great!!! > > But I saw that it's only in -current, although it's 2 months old and ha= s > > mfc after 4 weeks. > > Any chance that it gets MFCd in the near future? > > Any experiences? >=20 > I have a Fritz!Card PCI V2 installed in a Net4501 > (http://www.soekris.com/) which also has limited +5V current available; I > haven't measured the current drawn, but it's probably less than the 100mA > you say is available in your system. Thanks a lot. That's exactly the box I plan to buy. >=20 > This machine is running -stable. I can't now remember whether Gary > Jennejohn provided a patch set (check the mailing list archives from > around November 2001 when he announced the driver) or if I simply used th= e > version from -current. Running I4B from -current on -stable is normally > fairly straightforward anyhow. >=20 > As to the reliability of the driver, there was one major problem, for > which there is now a patch (which doesn't appear to have been committed, > probably because Gary is waiting for me to test it as I promised to do > weeks ago...). With that patch, it is mostly reliable, and probably woul= d > be 100% reliable on faster hardware: I believe that the remaining problem Oops, this doesn't sound too good. Addidionaly to the ISDN service I want to use it as WLAN AcessPoint, with DDNS/DHCP, PF and probably some other little services. I hope this doesn't cause negative influence to the ISDN reliability. Thanks, -Harry > is a generic I4B bug, tickled by high interrupt latency causing occasiona= l > packet loss. I need to do more work on this, but the failure occurs abou= t > once a month in normal use, or almost immediately with high levels of > debugging turned on. >=20 >=20 --=20 Wearix Software GmbH Harald Schmalzbauer, IT-Engineer Unterhachinger Strasse 75 81737 M=FCnchen +49 89 548828-702 http://www.wearix.com --=-SmZZckyl7ybgPdMEBLMG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: Weitere Infos: siehe http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQA8h4QmEscxcIgkTHcRAkm8AJ94v1xE/r9ju4y4SMW5X4jFuCgCIwCfeCwT KKi7iL/J3WphWcU79nqWdOM= =kgMU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-SmZZckyl7ybgPdMEBLMG-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message