From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 12 12:58:21 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA26658 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 12:58:21 -0700 Received: from MediaCity.com (root@easy1.mediacity.com [205.216.172.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA26653 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 12:58:20 -0700 Received: (from brian@localhost) by MediaCity.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA23031; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 13:02:27 -0700 From: Brian Litzinger Message-Id: <199510122002.NAA23031@MediaCity.com> Subject: Re: Cyclades driver for FreeBSD To: sklindsa@io.org (Scott Lindsay) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 13:02:26 -0700 (PDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Scott Lindsay" at Oct 12, 95 02:07:44 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1164 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > Brian, > > I run a FreeBSD server at work and purchased a multi-port board > from Cyclades (foolishly believing their sales people when they > said that FreeBSD was supported). Since the driver supplied with > FreeBSD 2.0.5 is bogus, I called for tech support. After several > promises of a new driver, I was given your name and it was suggested > that I contact you directly. > That said, what is the state of the driver? Is it stable enough > to be used in a Beta environment? Are you working on it? The driver supplied in FreeBSD (cy) IMHO and others doesn't work too well. I've made available a seperate driver (cyb) which is a complete production quality driver in use by many people including several ISPs, and has been production quality for over a year now. You can ftp it from: ftp://ftp.mediacity.com/pub/brian/cyb2.0fb.shar.gz You'll need to remember two things to use this driver: 1. Reverse pins 4 and 20 in your cables. Cyclades got them backwards in their designs. 2. use mgetty instead of getty with modems. Good Luck, and feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Brian Litzinger brian@mediacity.com