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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!rutgers!spcvxb!mauritz_c From: mauritz_c@spcvxb.spc.edu Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Digiboards and BSDI/386 Message-ID: <1993Jun4.094829.6159@spcvxb.spc.edu> Date: 4 Jun 93 13:48:29 GMT References: <1993Jun1.091623.6127@spcvxb.spc.edu> <1ule4l$rq5@wzv.win.tue.nl> <C82Aw4.16s@percy.rain.com> Organization: SPC Community Access System Lines: 43 In article <C82Aw4.16s@percy.rain.com>, nerd@percy.rain.com (Michael Galassi) writes: > guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) writes: > >>mauritz_c@spcvxb.spc.edu writes: > >>>If so, I am planning on purchasing BSDI/386 soon and I am >>>wondering if there is support for Digiboard products. >>>Specifically, I want to use a Digiboard 8-port "smart" >>>card for the modem pool on my 486 box. > > The "smart" cards (pc/Xe, pc/Xi) will be supported in the next release > of BSDI. > >>I don't know about bsdi's comdriver but 386bsd stock comdriver >>can be replaced by one having multiport extentions. The author >>thinks it to be a hack and doesnt like to support it but >>it did a good job for me in the past. > > The "smart" cards are a diferent story from the pc4 & pc8 from digiboard > which are already supported under 1.0. > >>But I'm sure that the guys at bsdi can help you with this, though >>I dont know there address. Try postmaster@bsdi.com. > > They probably can, they are always very helpfull. > > DISCLAMER: I don't work for or represent BSDI, I'm just a very happy > customer of theirs. I do have good reason to beleive there is a current > effort to get this driver out in the next release. Well, I spoke to Rob Kolstad at BSDI yesterday. He told me that Digiboard has finally lightened up a bit and that they may be getting the necessary widgets to write appropriate drivers soon. Apparently, the person who was handling the whole thing was out of the office so Rob didn't have complete details. I find it somewhat irritating that companies like Digiboard and Diamond can't seem to decide if they're in the hardware or the software business. :-/ Cheers, Chris