Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 11:35:50 +0200 (METDST) From: hm@hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) To: ISDN Mailinglist <freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org> Subject: AVM B1/T1 support available in FreeBSD's isdn4bsd Message-ID: <20010525093550.9A463290@hcswork.hcs.de>
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Its a pleasure for me to announce the availability of active ISDN card support in FreeBSD. I have just committed a CAPI driver (see http://www.capi.org/) and a hardware driver for the AVM B1 and AVM T1 cards to FreeBSD-current (and will make a 4.x-stable update-procedure available in the next days). These both components were contributed by Juha-Matti Liukkonen of Cubical Solutions Ltd (jml@cubical.fi), thank you very much for writing and sharing this code, Juha! I'd also like to thank Mr. Ziessnitz of AVM GmbH, Berlin (http://www.avm.de) for the donation of an AVM B1 PCI card for testing and code integration purposes! This code being in the tree has some nice consequences, namely that we now have support for primary rate (the AVM T1 family), that there is a (hopefully) generic CAPI driver in the tree to serve as a base to add support for more active CAPI-based cards and last but not least that because the protocol handling is done in the cards microcode we now get potential support for all the protocols beside DSS1 which the microcode of the cards supports: this is 5ESS, NI1 and 1TR6 for the B1 family of cards. I have tested the code with an AVM B1 PCI V.4.0 card and an AVM B1 ISA V.2.0 card (donated by Christoph Weber-Fahr): there are a few open ends on which i will work in the next time but basically the code runs and is in a good shape. See /usr/src/sys/i4b/capi/README for some notes on the code and administration. In the past i considered the lack of a CAPI interface and the missing demonstration that the i4b architecture is able to handle primary rate ISDN interfaces in isdn4bsd a major showstopper to get i4b to a 1.0 release. Since this is obsolete now, i bumped the isdn4bsd version to 1.0 with this commit. Have fun, hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis Tel +49 40 55 97 47-70 HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH Fax +49 40 55 97 47-77 Oldesloer Strasse 97-99 Mail hm [at] hcs.de D-22457 Hamburg WWW http://www.hcs.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message
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