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From: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>
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Subject: Re: Multiport serial cards (fwd)
To: bugs@ns1.win.net (Mark Hittinger)
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 20:15:18 -0500 (EST)
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Mark Hittinger writes:
> 
> > 
> > The ONLY thing that is standing in the way of a driver there, IMO,
> > is the lack of someone with hardware and a determination to write a
> > driver.
> > 
> 
> Hmmm I happen two have 2 8-port digiboards and 1 4-port digiboard.
> 
> If I can get the low level docs maybe I could do some of this.  I probably
> do need to return at least some of these ports back into active service
> under FreeBSD.

Docs are available as "pkzipd" .exe files at:

ftp::digibd.com:/pub/digiline/drivers/programming:

total 583
-r--r--r--  1 ftp          6979 Jun 16  1994 64kto8k.doc
-r--r--r--  1 ftp         22936 Sep 30 11:06 ioctl.txt
-r--r--r--  1 ftp         58304 Nov 23 09:39 pcxxbios.exe
-r--r--r--  1 ftp         56730 Oct  5 10:59 progdemo.exe
-r--r--r--  1 ftp        437540 Oct  5 11:00 progfcts.exe

Don't be fooled by the "drivers/manual" directory: That has nothing
in it but jumper settings.  "pcxxbios.exe" is the one to uncompress
for the DigiBoard PC/X* boards.

I am seriously thinking of putting together a driver for this.
I'll look over the manual tonight.

Peter

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