Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 23:44:20 +0200 From: Gerald Heinig <Gerald.Heinig@post.rwth-aachen.de> To: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@muc.de> Cc: freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TA PCI passive card questions Message-ID: <3957CEB4.6587AFC3@post.rwth-aachen.de> References: <200006262108.XAA59620@peedub.muc.de>
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Gary Jennejohn wrote: > Gerald Heinig writes: > >Hi all, > > > >I recently (yesterday) acquired a TA ISDN card and I'd like to know > >whether anyone has any info on this beast. > >It has the Cologne Chip Designs chip on it - the exact number is CCD > >9914E. > >I had a look through the i4b archives and it seems someone (Hellmuth?) > >is writing a driver for this thing, or wants to, or has finished and > >wants to test or whatever. > >If the driver work is still ongoing, Iīd like to offer to help. I have a > >bit of time spare at the moment and if I could contribute something and > >learn a thing or two that would be cool. > >First of all, though, I donīt have any docs for this chip and I donīt > >even know what company the card is from. All it says on the box is "ISDN > >128k TA card" and the exact card number is TAS106H-C if thatīs of any > >help to anyone. > > > >As for the chip, I had a look for www.ccd.de, ccd.com, searched for > >"Cologne Chip Design" on Yahoo but turned up nothing. Where do I get the > >doco for this thing from? > > > >Any pointers much appreciated. > > > >If there already *is* a driver for this then sorry to waste your time. > >Iīm still on 3.4 Release with (IIRC) the stock i4b and there was no > >mention of this card in the "Cards" file. If itīs already in the 4.0 i4b > >Iīll have missed it. > > > > This is kind of old. Did anyone ever answer it ? Yeah. I got a reply from Hellmuth a week or two back with a pointer to http://www.colognechip.de and I've downloaded the doco. > > > Anyway... CCD has a web site at www.colognechip.de. > > Is this the HFC-S PCI chip ? (looks at data sheet...) I guess not. > I have no idea which chip this is and I've never seen numbers like > this on a CCD chip. They tend to use labels like HFC-S PCI or HFC-SP. Erm, yes. [embarrassment]. It's actually an HFC-S PCI. I didn't look at the right numbers. > > > There are some CCD chips supported in the next beta releasae. Don't > know when that will be. > > The driver for the HFC-S PCI chip is in a rather incomplete state > right now. Obviously, it's a PCI based card. If you have one of > those then you might also have this chip. The chip is the HFC-S PCI. Hellmuth said he was keen on a driver being available for the next release. I'd be happy to give things a try, but all my driver experience is from Solaris, and even that isn't all that much. What I'm really lacking is good doco for the FreeBSD way to probe and attach a card to the system and The Right Way (tm) of doing things. It's kind of hard to find docs like that for BSD. > > > I started the driver and got it fairly far along, but I never > finished it. I sent Hellmuth what I had, but he didn't have time > to finish it. If you're interested, I could send you what I have. Cool. I'd definitely be interested. > But you have to develop in the context of the next release, which is > *completely* different from the old stuff. *sigh*. So I _will_ have to upgrade to 4.0 pronto, then? I was sort of hoping I'd get round that, but ah, what the heck.... :-) > Could be difficult to get > up to speed. It's probably better to wait for me or Hellmuth to get > on the stick and finish the driver. You're right on that one. It'll take me a while to work out what goes where, but I'm still interested in the code. You never know, I might even be able to help.... :-) Cheers, Gerald > > --- > Gary Jennejohn / garyj@muc.de gj@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message
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