From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Apr 29 10:54:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA00306 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 10:54:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from yuri.microsoft.com (exchange.microsoft.com [131.107.243.48]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA00301 Mon, 29 Apr 1996 10:54:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by yuri.microsoft.com with Microsoft Exchange (IMC 4.0.838.10) id <01BB35B9.DE0D8330@yuri.microsoft.com>; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 10:51:49 -0700 Message-ID: From: "Scott Overholser (Volt Computer) (Exchange)" To: "'Freebsd-ISP@freebsd.org'" , "'FreeBSD-Hardware@freebsd.org'" , "'luiz@mirage.nlink.com.br'" Subject: RE: Comtrol Rocketports. Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 10:51:42 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.838.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk i know this doesn't help you with your comtrol products but cyclades seems very committed to supporting free operating systems. their products have worked well for me as well. there is cyclades support in 2.1.0-release. >---------- >From: luiz@mirage.nlink.com.br[SMTP:luiz@mirage.nlink.com.br] >Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 1980 12:23 PM >To: Freebsd-ISP@freebsd.org; FreeBSD-Hardware@freebsd.org >Subject: Comtrol Rocketports. > >I have two Comtrol Rocketports running on my ISP on a Linux machine. >Our Services Server ( news,mail,www,etc ) is FreeBSD. >I am tired of having to re-configure, recompile, reboot the Linux >because of crashes, locks, kernel panics, etc. >One month ago the system was locking up the serial ports almost once a >day. > >FreeBSD looked for me as a very very much stabler system than linux. >I can't understand how comtrol did not made a driver for Rocketport >under >FreeBSD. I have talked to a guy from comtrol and he said that they do >not >have plans on supporting another Free operating system, as their >experience >with linux was a disaster. ( They did one for BSDi and i think it would >be >very easy to port it to FreeBSD ) > >Anyone already did a driver for this board for FreeBSD? >How about all of we concerned about this problem make a flood of >messages >to the comtrol guys? Maybe we can convince they on making the driver >for >such a good System like FreeBSD? > >Regards, >Luiz de Barros Oliveira Neto >Netlink Internet Services. > >