From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 26 11:02:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA18362 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jan 1996 11:02:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from casparc.ppp.net (casparc.ppp.net [194.64.12.35]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA18357 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 1996 11:02:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from ernie by casparc.ppp.net with uucp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0tftPe-000Hz1C; Fri, 26 Jan 96 20:02 MET Received: by ernie.altona.hamburg.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #4) id m0tfsmk-00000kC; Fri, 26 Jan 96 19:22 MET Message-Id: From: hm@altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 19:22:06 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: hm@altona.hamburg.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > >I've heard about bugs and problems with different driver.....but not much > >positive feedback. What is the "product of choice" for doing multi-port > >async dial-in with Freebsd....as of the moment? > Might I infer from the fact that no-one seems to have a (positive) opinion > about this that FreeBSD is a particularly bad choice for this and Linux > should be recommended? Some weeks ago i asked a similar question. I got one recommendation: a Boca Board - which seems to run fine at several sites but had a problem with autodetection at boot time. I could not find a distributor for it here in Germany. Also i contacted the german distributor for the Cyclades product line because i heard some good things about the product line. I was told, that the FreeBSD driver does not work good, but someone in Germany hacked a good running version - i could not locate him. I scanned the mail archives for Cyclades and saw that there was some flameing going on about the cy driver and that someone else had written a driver which works but which needs mgetty. I don't like needing mgetty. Nothing against mgetty, but i want to get along with getty if i want. Other than this, the Cycaldes product looked very promising, but without a working driver ... Finally someone in the company i'm working for put an ancient AST "Cluster Controller" on my desk, 4 full modem ports equipped with 8250's and just one IRQ needed. AST Germany was VERY helpful in getting the dip switch settings for this ancient board, it is fully supported by sio and it runs without any problems - i'm fully satisfied. But to come back to the original article. I normally don't respond to anything anymore which says "Help me, or i go to the Linux camp" - i find it very bad style to extort help with this question. If someone even plays with going to Linux, he should do immediately. Same applies to Windows 3.11, 95 and NT. For me going to Linux is just no question because nothing - and i mean NOTHING - fits my needs there. And before i would go to Linux because of a serial board driver, i would write one immediately and make the source available freely for everyone - and discussing this, i thought, was the purpose of this list, this is why we are subscribed, aren't we ? hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis hm@altona.hamburg.com Hamburg, Europe (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)nstall BSD ?