From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 11 08:50:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA03500 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 08:50:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.digital.com (mail1.digital.com [204.123.2.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA03492 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 08:50:55 -0800 (PST) From: garyj@frt.dec.com Received: from cssmuc.frt.dec.com by mail1.digital.com; (5.65 EXP 4/12/95 for V3.2/1.0/WV) id AA29388; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 08:40:07 -0800 Received: from localhost by cssmuc.frt.dec.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/14Nov95-0232PM) id AA07030; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 17:40:02 +0100 Message-Id: <9601111640.AA07030@cssmuc.frt.dec.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: hackers%freebsd.org@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com In-Reply-To: Message from Bill Lloyd of Thu, 11 Jan 96 09:46:32 EST. Reply-To: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com Subject: Re: Status of ISDN drivers Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 11 Jan 96 17:40:02 +0100 X-Mts: smtp Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk wlloyd@mpd.ca writes: > I've been reading through the past archives for ISDN card information, > as well as scanning through the source tree. > > So far all I've found is that the current ISDN PC card drivers for Dr. > Neurhaus(sp?) seem to be out of date and going nowhere. > > So that seems to leave the following options to do ISDN on Freebsd. > > 1) Buy Ascend 25/50 etc. expensive but good option. > 2) Buy Dr. Nuerhaus card and hope it all works out. > 3) Get a TA like a Bitsurfr/Adtran etc. > > Is that the true situation, or am I missing something? > > Is anyone working on drivers for the low cost PC plug-n-play ISDN boards > from Digiboard or Livingston? > most of the active ISDN users/developers are located in Germany. There's a rather active mail list here (all in German). There's now a driver available for the Teles/Creatix card. The Teles low-end (passive) card is supposedly available in the US (Jordan posted something to one of the lists a few months ago, check the archive). This driver has not been put into the source tree yet, but I and several people I know of are using it. Whether any changes need to be made to get the current (not yet released) ISDN stuff to work in the US is a very open question. I don't know of anyone in the US who's running our ISDN code. It sure would be nice if someone could try it out, though ! No-one is working on drivers for the Digiboard/Livingston cards, that I know of. I don't think they're even available or can compete price-wise with the really low-cost cards already on the market in Europe. Your best option is prob. 3. Or write a driver :-) --- Gary Jennejohn (work) gjennejohn@frt.dec.com (home) Gary.Jennejohn@munich.netsurf.de (play) gj@freebsd.org