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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!gatech!news.sprintlink.net!neonramp.com!cynjut.neonramp.com!cynjut.neonramp.com!not-for-mail From: burgess@cynjut.neonramp.com (Dave Burgess) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: RISCom N2/CSU and Rocketport 32 Date: 30 May 1995 13:46:31 -0500 Organization: Configuration Management Svcs, Inc. Lines: 34 Message-ID: <3qfp67$4tu@cynjut.neonramp.com> References: <3q75ot$8sv@detroit.freenet.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynjut.neonramp.com In article <3q75ot$8sv@detroit.freenet.org>, Michael Marson <ac381@detroit.freenet.org> wrote: > [...stuff deleted...] > >Also, can Rocketport multiport cards be used with FreeBSD? The only >multiport board (i.e. 64 ports) that I have found that explicitly >states it supports BSD is digiboard Xem. > I have talked to the folks at Comtrol and they made a 'programmers kit' available that has the programming information for the Rocketport cards available. They are VERY open about the interface (something like "Our proprietary information is on the card, not in the interfaces") and have been very supportive and helpful. If I could get the time and code together in one place, I would start writing the Rocketport code for the 8J that I installed. There is a Linux driver, but it is both GPLed and not particularly compatible with the way that *BSD does business. I haven't looked at it since the first day, and started a fresh effort to build a non-GPLed driver. Anyone want to help? I have heard reports of Boca and Cyclades cards working with the BSDs, but I don't have any first hand experience. -- Dave Burgess (The man of a thousand E-Mail addresses) 386bsd FAQ Maintainer / SysAdmin for the NetBSD system in my spare bedroom "Just because something is stupid doesn't mean that there isn't someone that wants to do it...."