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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!nigel.msen.com!math.fu-berlin.de!fauern!cs.tu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!tilo From: tilo@cs.tu-berlin.de (Tilo Schuerer) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: ISDN-Drivers available? Date: 1 Mar 1993 16:18:29 GMT Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany Lines: 248 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1mtd0l$7ep@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: kreusa.cs.tu-berlin.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Keywords: ISDN Two weeks ago i posted a question about ISDN-Drivers. I regret but there were only questions of people that wanted to know the same thing. I did the same posting in <comp.os.linux> and got the same result. (It seems that there isn't anything in that way of freeware.) The only one who is likely to do something is Matthias Urlichs. Therefore i'll post a part of an article he wrote in <comp.os.linux>: In article <1llhdg$h18@smurf.sub.org>, urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) writes: > In comp.os.linux, article <1993Feb14.061411.2390@super.org>, > becker@super.org (Donald J. Becker) writes: > > In article <1ljjbn$rs5@smurf.sub.org> urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) writes: > > >Don't worry, there will be ISDN support. > > > > Great! Who's working on it, and what is it likely to do? > > > *I*'m working on it. Right now, the beast runs under Apple's A/UX, a Sys5R2 > system with almost, but not quite, all BSD 4.3 and Sys5R3 stuff. > > I'm currently porting my whole ISDN subsystem to some PCish Unixes and Linux > is a great base because I actually have sources to the kernel, especially > the Streams subsystem. (I know that Linux doesn't _have_ a Streams subsystem > yet, but Fred van Kempen is working on one. As an interim step, I might > just hack up my own.) > > This system features neat stuff like Streams derivers for SLIP framing, > HDLC framing (as used by PPP -- PPP itself isn't implemented yet, but > it will happen eventually), stuff to log traffic, and of course basic > access to "dumb" and (eventually) "intelligent" ISDN cards. > > One of the not-so-trivial problems are that every country has its own > special ISDN standard, which in many but not all cases is almost, but not > quite, unlike the Q.931 standard that the CCITT intended to be used for > ISDN access. :-( > > -- > Matthias Urlichs -- urlichs@smurf.sub.org -- urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de /(o\ > Humboldtstrasse 7 -- 7500 Karlsruhe 1 -- Germany -- +49-721-9612521 \o)/ If somebody knows more than i do please post a followup - i think that there are many people interested in these problems. Thanks , Tilo