Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 08:52:03 +0000 () From: francis yeung <fyeung@fyeung5.netific.com> To: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com Cc: bertus%mikom.csir.co.za@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com, questions%freebsd.org@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com Subject: Re: ISDN devices supported? Message-ID: <199602090852.IAA11526@fyeung5.netific.com> In-Reply-To: <9602081106.AA00554@cssmuc.frt.dec.com> from "garyj@frt.dec.com" at Feb 8, 96 12:06:46 pm
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> Gary Jennejohn wrote: > > bertus@mikom.csir.co.za writes: > > Hi, > > I had a look in the code to see which ISDN devices are supported. > > I must, to my disgust, admit that I failed. Please could anybody please > > inform my of the ISDN devices supported by FreeBSD and if possible the > > supplier as well. > > > > Thanks > > > > If you want to stick a card into your box then the only cards which are > currently supported are ISA cards from Dr. Neuhaus (the so calles Niccy > cards) or Teles/Creatix in Germany. > > You can hook up a TA (aka. ISDN modem) such as the ZyXel 1486DI (?) > or one from Motorola. Since these hook to the serial port you can handle > them just like an external modem. Jordan Hubbard is using a setup > like this with great success. I have tried the external modems e.g. 3com, Motorola and they all worked fine. But I do like to use an internal card (because I hate those bulky AC adaptors). However, Motorola also makes an ISA card which is the internal card version of the Bitsurfer. Have anyone had any experience with this card ? If this card uses the similiar AT commands like the external one, we should be able to modify the modem interface sequences to make it look like a serial port/analog modem . US Robotics also makes an ISDN ISA card (a little more pricy $389), it claims that it supports packet driver. Does anyone ever written a FreeBSD device driver emulating a Packet Driver ? Or any ISA ISDN cards that support CAPI which is used by the current ISDN driver. The German ISDN cards all support CAPI which is developed in Germany. However, I have a hard time in ordering one here in US. > > A TA is the most flexible solution since the German cards are designed > for EuroISDN (the European ISDN standard) and there's no guarantee that > they'll work correctly outside of Europe. > In US, we use NT-1 and NT-1 is an U-Interface. In Europe, there are using S/T interface. NT-1 type of modem most likely will not work in Europe. (Correct me if am wrong, thanks) > --- > Gary Jennejohn (work) gjennejohn@frt.dec.com > (home) Gary.Jennejohn@munich.netsurf.de > (play) gj@freebsd.org > Best regards. Francis > >
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