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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!kehlet From: kehlet@netcom.com (Steven Kehlet) Subject: Re: ISDN and FreeBSD Message-ID: <kehletDBFEK8.7zr@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <3thdbm$sie@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: Sun, 9 Jul 1995 01:52:56 GMT Lines: 32 Sender: kehlet@netcom21.netcom.com Geordan Rosario (geordan@OCF.Berkeley.EDU) wrote: : How would I go about getting FreeBSD and ISDN to work? I don't have ISDN yet, : actually, but I'd like to know what it entails (e.g. is there support for : NT1's in FreeBSD, etc.). Hi, I'd like to know some more about this too. I work for an ISP that offers isdn connections, and through them I'm getting something new by Motorola called the ``BitSurfr'', which plugs into a serial port and does ppp over one channel of an isdn line. It costs about $350(?). The idea of this is to completely hide the isdn part; to your computer, it will just look like another modem, on a serial port, doing ppp... but at 56k (at least, I hope it's going to be this easy.. ;-). This, of course, requires an isdn-capable phone line in the house.. (call Pac Bell, or your local provider...) This is one easy solution that is possible, and requires no special capabilities from your OS (FreeBSD, or otherwise)... (and pretty cheap, too...) There isn't any documentation out there.. and darned I am if I'm going to d/l all the gnu source just to read ``/usr/src/gnu/usr.sbin/docs/INSTALL'' where supposedly there's some info... ;-) Any other folks out there with input about isdn? :-) Steve Kehlet