Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 13:37:18 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: fyeung@fyeung5.netific.com (francis yeung) Cc: terry@lambert.org, hm@altona.hamburg.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ISDN devices supported? Message-ID: <199602112037.NAA18555@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199602102247.WAA25535@fyeung5.netific.com> from "francis yeung" at Feb 10, 96 10:47:44 pm
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> The US Robotics ISDN card support ODI and NDIS (but not ODI CAPI > or NDIS CAPI - I doubt it very much these things exist). > . It looks like to me that they are trying to emulate > an Ethernet card. Where can I locate any info about using > NDIS/ODI with FreeBSD ? If FreeBSD can work with NDIS/ODI, > it should work with Packet Driver (PD) with ease. The ODI driver must be a server-ODI driver. Client-ODI drivers are real-mode drivers. Server-ODI drivers are drivers to allow the use of the card in NetWare itself. The ODI module specification is available from a provoder perspective on the Novell FTP site. Since the interface is "black box", it's possible to write an ODI consumer from the specification (I did this a while ago; it's part of the code that USL claimed when they bought Novell -- I know, I know, but that's what it felt like). It wouldn't be too hard to replicate. Utah State University (usu.edu) has a large NetWare/Novell FTP server with all sorts of tools, specifications, and object file formats. You's have to lok around on archie by host to find it; it should take all of five minutes using the www archie interface. The most recent Cygnus binutils support ODI object formats; Cygnus was paid by Novell to build an NLM develeopement environment, and the ODI drivers are loaded on the server as NLM's. This would probably be a 2-3 month effort, assuming you had two or more ethernet cards that had server-ODI drivers. Probably about 80 hours of work, total. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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