From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 1 03:13:52 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id DAA04608 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 03:13:52 -0800 Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA04598 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 03:13:45 -0800 Received: (dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.9/8.3) id GAA06016; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 06:13:49 -0500 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199504011113.GAA06016@hda.com> Subject: Re: Digiboard support To: pmartin@vt.edu Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 06:13:49 -0500 (EST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9504010529.AA0027@pmartin.async.vt.edu> from "pmartin@vt.edu" at Apr 1, 95 00:24:43 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1451 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk pmartin@vt.edu writes: > > I am currently evaluating several different unixes for use as a modem pool > server using a Digiboard multiport serial IO card. I was wondering if drivers > for the Digiboard Xem seriers controllers exist? If so, could you please tell > me if they support Digiboards FEP technology. Also, if you could inform me of > or direct me to any source of performance information related to this, I would > greatly appreciate it. Thank you for taking the time to answer these questions. We are having some discussions with DigiBoard going on right now. Drivers for the FEP boards require signing a non disclosure agreement to receive the programming information. They have permitted a Linux driver developed using the non-disclosure agreement to be made available under the GPL and so there is every reason to expect they will permit a FreeBSD driver under the less restrictive Berkeley licence to be made available. However, the wheels turn slowly. In the meantime Andrew Chernov is working on a "Riscom" driver for another intelligent serial board. If you would like details of that board let us know. If you choose another Unix because of the availability of DigiBoard product please let us know so that we can turn up the heat. Thanks, Peter -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267