Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 11:14:02 +0100 (MET) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: Re: Who's working on ISDN? Message-ID: <199512091014.LAA00354@allegro.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <25818.818383825@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Dec 7, 95 04:50:25 pm
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Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > >> The Teles boards are available in the US now as well, contact >> Teles at (415) 652-9191. > > I just called them and got ahold of a very kind and helpful German > tech support guy who gave me details on the boards (they run from > around $290 - $350 depending on whether or not you want an integrated > NT1). They work with U.S. switches and would appear to be the > out-and-out cheapest cards available in both U.S. and European > markets. Hmm. I wonder if these are identically the same cards as are available in Germany? Over here, the going rate is probably about $130 (without the NT1, which is always supplied by the phone company over here). My (wholesale) supplier has them for DM 159, about $112. > Even more interesting, he said that 2 of the people on the UNIX > development team in Germany (they support SCO, Solaris, Interactive > and Linux) were big fans of FreeBSD: Peter Schumberger and Jenz > Ketzmeier (not sure about the spelling of the last one) Jens Ketzmeier maybe? > can be reached > at 011-49-30-39928 x260. Perhaps some of our german members would > care to get ahold of them? Now that *is* interesting. I've previously looked at Teles as a very uncooperative company. When I bought my card, I discovered that I needed to install something called "Windows" on my diskless router before I could install the software provided (it doesn't need Windows to run, just to install the U(*&*(&*(). I contacted Teles, in itself an activity which took over an hour, who told me there was no way around this, that this was a feature and not a bug. Finally somebody sent me a DOS archive with the stuff, but it didn't leave me with a good impression of the company. Various people in the Linux group over here (who have a marginally working Teles driver) have approached Teles and tried to get information about the cards, so far without success. I'll give these guys a call on Monday and discuss the matter with them. I've heard from other sources that they're interested in a UNIX driver, but so far they haven't been able to show anything. Possibly we could come to an agreement with them. I'll report more when I've spoken to them. Greg
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