Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 05:19:58 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, hm@altona.hamburg.com Subject: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards Message-ID: <199601281819.FAA19242@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> 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 That was the 2.0.5 driver. Ancient history. >and so Brian Litzinger >(sp?) wrote a replacement driver. It was written before the 2.0.5 driver was imported from NetBSD. The original NetBSD driver was probably written first. >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. It only needs mgetty if you want to do both incoming and outgoing calls. Bruce
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