From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Apr 28 08:45:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA05363 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 28 Apr 1996 08:45:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bacall.lodgenet.com (bacall.lodgenet.com [205.138.147.242]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA05358 Sun, 28 Apr 1996 08:45:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mail@localhost) by bacall.lodgenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA05292; Sun, 28 Apr 1996 10:43:03 -0500 Received: from garbo.lodgenet.com(204.124.123.250) by bacall via smap (V1.3) id sma005290; Sun Apr 28 10:42:38 1996 Received: from jake.lodgenet.com (jake.lodgenet.com [204.124.120.30]) by garbo.lodgenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA15924; Sun, 28 Apr 1996 10:46:51 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jake.lodgenet.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA19281; Sun, 28 Apr 1996 10:47:33 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199604281547.KAA19281@jake.lodgenet.com> X-Authentication-Warning: jake.lodgenet.com: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Luiz de Barros cc: Chris Peltier , "'FreeBSD-ISP@FreeBSD.org'" , "'FreeBSD-Hardware@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Re: Comtrol Rocketports In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 28 Apr 1996 11:14:21 -0300." Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 10:47:33 -0500 From: "Eric L. Hernes" Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk check the hardware archives for a posting I send a while back. Here's my cliff-notes: Comtrol was drooling over a contract with lodgenet, we buy 75-100 8port serial cards a month. I told the salesman that without a FreeBSD driver, their cards were totally useless to us, he said that he'd look into it and see if an engineer would port the bsdi driver to fbsd. That was over a month ago, I'm still waiting... but on the good side... If you want a serial card in the moderate to high performance range, check out Stallion Technologies. They have several cards that work well, and on top of it, they're the only serial board vendor to have a FreeBSD driver actually written by one of their employees. other intelligent cards that we have drivers for are cyclades, digi 8e, riscom, and specialix. did I miss any? I've seen the cyclades work. We're not having any obvious problems with the digi, but it's just a 9600-38400bps hardware controller. I haven't tested the riscom or specialix. Luiz de Barros writes: >Hi, >I am beginning to get tired of comtrol. I am thinking of changing all my >comtrols to Cyclades. Lets make a few noise with the comtrol guys, how >about a few home pages saying " I would like to exchange my Comtrol >RocketPorts with Cyclades Cycloms, they did a linux driver and do not do >a FreeBSD one. " . So maybe they will do the driver. I can't understand >how a company that wants to sell more and more does not do a driver for >FreeBSD. >Luiz > > >On Sat, 27 Apr 1996, Chris Peltier wrote: > >> I also talked to Comtrol about FreeBSD in Feb.. They told me that they would >> never >> do the port. As you said it's available for BSDi. The BSDi port won't work >> for FreeBSD, >> people have tried. >> >> --Chris Peltier >> NetCarrier, a division of IEC Technologies >> >