From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 28 10:23:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA24561 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 10:23:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA24556 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 10:22:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id FAA19242; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 05:19:58 +1100 Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 05:19:58 +1100 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199601281819.FAA19242@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, hm@altona.hamburg.com Subject: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> 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