Subject: Re: Looking for an ISA S/T ISDN card
To: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
From: Gregory McGarry <g.mcgarry@qut.edu.au>
List: port-pmax
Date: 03/10/2000 09:59:35
Matt Thomas wrote:
> >My understanding is that the am7930 ISDN interface was a forward-thinking
> >engineering decision when it was included on the maxine. Unfortunately
> >it wasn't implemented correctly, and hence they come with the ISDN
> >connection covered over. I think the implementation in the sparc is
> >usable but AFAICS they cannot do DMA to the chip like the maxine.
>
> Not quite true. There was ULTRIX product that made the ISDN port work.
> So it is possible.
Oh, okay. Well, in that case I can supply a driver for the DMA. There
is also an ISDN driver available for the am7930 on sparclinux.
-- Gregory McGarry <g.mcgarry@qut.edu.au>