Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 12:45:05 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: sandy@lapkin.rosprint.ru, xmm@ugai.kcn.ru, hardware@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: How can i run Eicon X.25 card with FreeBSD? Message-ID: <199604041945.MAA22341@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20169.828641592@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 4, 96 10:13:12 am
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> Uh, Sandy, there was no way anyway since we don't have any *drivers* > for the EICON X.25 card! The CCITT code is the least of Marat's > worries (and I just happen to be familiar with this card, having a > friend who worked for EICON - it's a bear to program!). Hey! That's the X.25 card that we wrote the X.29 pad services for for the French Ministry of Defense! Not under BSD, and many years ago... > Bringing CCITT back would be fairly easy, if someone had the urge. > Writing an X.25 driver for the card would be the hard part. If you're > going to point fingers, at least make sure you point them in the right > direction! :-) If anyone plans to bring it back, there are a number of library and kernel interface issues that have historically kludged which I hope you would clean up while you were at it... 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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