From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 28 09:01:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA22047 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 09:01:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [165.254.13.209]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA22042 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 09:01:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-usr11.etinc.com (dialup-usr11.etinc.com [204.141.95.132]) by etinc.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA09533; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 12:00:12 -0500 Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 12:00:12 -0500 Message-Id: <199601281700.MAA09533@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: hm@altona.hamburg.com From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Subject: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >>From the keyboard of dennis: > >> the AST solution is unacceptable for a real ISP....I wonder why the cyclades >> board needs mgetty.....whats the major diff between getty and mgetty? > >As far as i understood it the situation is like this: the 2.1 driver has >some (please correct me if i'm wrong !!) problems and so Brian Litzinger >(sp?) wrote a replacement driver. This driver needs a) a hardware >modification in the plugs and b) need mgetty because the interlock between >incoming and outgoing calls is not done in the driver (so it must be done >with mgetty). a) and b) are not acceptable for my purposes. > >Someone else wrote that the -current Cyclades driver works fine. Has someone >backported the diffs to 2.1 or -stable yet ? > >Are there any _first-hand_ 2.1/-stable experiences with any Cyclades driver ? Which cyclades driver is this ( I understand they have multiple boards)? Has anyone seen (or touched) their new PCI board? Dennis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous PC Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD and LINUX.