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From: olsenc@kodiak.ee.washington.edu (Clint Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: ISDN adapter support?
Date: 14 Feb 1995 07:24:09 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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Message-ID: <3hplqp$kg3@nntp1.u.washington.edu>
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Hello:

I'm sure this has been hashed over before, but are there
any plans to support ISDN adapters under *BSD or Linux?
They're just starting to trickle out of the greate divide,
so I was just wondering.

FYI, the new edition of the IBM Waverunner and the Intel
ISDN adapters are going to support B-channel bonding so you
can get either 112Kbps or 128Kbps from a BRI.

I'm pleading for such support so I don't have to plunk down
$900 for an Ascend 50HX router on top of a $140 network 
card :)

I'd write one myself, but I don't have a net connection to
test such a device (nor have I _ever_ written a driver).
Sounds like a chicken and the egg, doesn't it :)

Later,

-Clint