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From: Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: ISDN TA's supported for BSD Unix?
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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 21:22:35 GMT
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>> On 5 Feb 1997 20:50:41 GMT, ripley@nostromo.in-berlin.de (H. Eckert) said:

    HE> plm@xs4all.nl (Peter Mutsaers):
    >> I had an internal ISDN TA first (a Teles, very popular in Germany and
    >> the Netherlands). These require special drivers of course, but are
    >> very cheap. For FreeBSD the drivers aren't quite there yet (almost,
    >> but I've been hearing that for a long time).

    HE> For being "not quite there yet" the driver is running pretty flawlessy
    HE> on my machine.  Granted, it is version 0.97 and due to some esoteric
    HE> copyright issues some parts have to be rewritten from scratch before
    HE> it can be incorporated into the FreeBSD kernel mainstream, but that
    HE> doesn't limit its functionality at all :-)

I wrote my quoted message more than a month ago. Since then a better
to install PPP for Teles has become available indeed. I bought my
external TA just a few weeks to early :)
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