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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.MediaCity.com!easy1.mediacity.com!marcio From: marcio@easy1.mediacity.com (Marcio of Cyclades) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Does Cyclades work??? HELP ME PLEASE Date: 25 Jul 1996 17:15:54 GMT Organization: http://www.MediaCity.com 415 321 6800 Lines: 66 Message-ID: <4t8a4a$lt@easy2.mediacity.com> References: <postmaster-0807960506490001@206.65.200.5> <4sasal$3v8@pelican.unf.edu> <postmaster-2307961236080001@206.65.200.5> <4t4el2$hqb@ucthpx.uct.ac.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: easy1.mediacity.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Hello. This is Marcio Saito from Cyclades Corporation. As Stephen said, the driver comes native in the FreeBSD kernel and, yes, the Cyclom-Y board works. Cliff Addy wrote: >> As you can see, my whole experience with this has left me rather bitter. >> I feel Cyclades is doing a great disservice (if not flat-out lying) when >> they claim their stuff is FreeBSD compatible. I feel you are being tremendously unfair posting this statements in the newsgroup. I don't have your whole message and I don't know what your experiences were, but I'm sure that either there was a misunderstading or you haven't contacted us to solve whatever problem you had. There are thousands of happy Cyclades customers using Cyclom-Y to provide dialup services. There are about 50000 Cyclades serial ports working only in the free-OS market. Dave wrote: >That snivelling sales man I talked to over the phone said that it has very >tight integration with FreeBSD and that the driver comes standard with the >kernel. Is this true? Yes, it is true. The "snivelling" sales man said the truth. FreeBSD counts on a very tight integration, hardware and technical support provided by Cyclades Corporation to develop the Cyclom-Y drivers. The driver comes native in the FreeBSD kernel distributions. No need of driver downloads, patches or diskketes. Stephen wrote: > I bought two Cyclades Cyclom 16-Ye cards (the ISA 16-port card), and > they both worked flawless at the default settings, after adding the > cy driver line to the kernel file (as described in man cy), and > recompiling the kernel. > > The PCI card (YeP) isn't yet supported in FreeBSD as far as I know > however. That is correct. The boards should work flawlessly if the user bothers to read the man page and configure the driver (or if he/she contact technical support for help). FreeBSD has Cyclades PCI cards and they are implententing support into the driver. PCI support is not available at this point. Cyclades provides free and unlimited technical support to all customers. Questions can be directed to <support@cyclades.com> and are answered within 24 hours. Technical support can also be reached at (510) 770-9727. Product installation/configuration under FreeBSD is fully supported by Cyclades. Bug reports and contributions can be directed to either Cyclades or FreeBSD <support@freebsd.org>. Regards, Marcio Saito ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marcio Saito e-mail: marcio@cyclades.com SW Engineer phone : (510) 770-9727 Cyclades Corporation fax: (510) 770-0355 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------