From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 8 14:55:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA17173 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 14:55:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de [141.31.112.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA17166 for ; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 14:55:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from helbig@localhost) by helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id XAA12878; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 23:53:40 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfgang Helbig Message-Id: <199708082153.XAA12878@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> Subject: Re: ISDN drivers/cards In-Reply-To: from Stephen Roome at "Aug 8, 97 03:24:42 pm" To: steve@visint.co.uk (Stephen Roome) Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 23:53:39 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De, perhaps@yes.no, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Wolfgang Helbig wrote: > > But w/o running routed and with some care while editing bisdnd.cfg > > it works like a charm. You're right, the installation of bisdnd > > including the kernel patches is not the most elegant thing under > > the sun--and this is getting worse with every committ to the kernel > > sources, that change the interface. > > This is really my main point, bisdn works for some folks and not for > other, but is no real reliable base for part of FreeBSD. It's a mess and > that could explain why some people have so much luck and other don't. > Mostly boiling down to "luck" I expect. The messy part starts when you try to run ppp over isdn. But straight bisdn-097 works fine for a lot of people. I installed it nearly a year ago successfully. It was one of the first things I did with FreeBSD, so it didn't take much expertise to install. Wolfgang