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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!worldnet.att.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Computone Intelliport II driver? Date: 10 May 1997 07:17:02 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 27 Message-ID: <5l17de$9c1@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5kodlf$7uf@news.4dcomm.com> <33728357.794BDF32@freebsd.org> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40673 "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > I've never even heard of it. What does the company say? Does it > emulate anything else? Hardly. The Intelliport (without the II) and ATvantage boards are in the tradition of `classic' intelligent multiport cards, with an 80186 doing the dirty work, and shared-mem communication to the host. I would assume the Intelliport II is just a revamped design, in the same sense as everybody else is producing intelligent multiport cards today, i.e. using some proprietary ASIC. Last time i approached Computone for the Intelliport/ATvantage sample drivers, they weren't unfriendly, but never actually sent me the fax to sign their NDA (which would have been agreeable for me, given that i'm probably the only one still even owning these two boards :). I didn't track this then anymore. Their email RTTs were horrible, i remember of ~ 1 week for each answer. I now understand why people praise the support of free software. :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)