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From: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: tw0 driver for xten
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 15:57:20 -0600
Organization: NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory
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Mike Whitley wrote:
> Thanks for the info.  I'll look at the Lynx.  I'm thinking about
> porting some code to use one of my CP290s under FreeBSD, has anyone
> already done this?

If so, I don't know about it.  But it would be a welcome addition to the
FreeBSD home automation project.  See

  http://www.freebsd.org/~faulkner/multimedia/HomeAuto/HomeAuto.html

for more information, in case you'd like to contribute your code to what
we've developed so far.

> As for the TW523 have many people actually had success
> building the cable and using the tw0 driver?  I guess Gene Stark
> must have done it...Is he accepting E-mail etc.?  Does he have any
> suggestions on a parallel card?

Best to ask him.  When last I corresponded with him, yes some people
have experienced success.

Good luck!

-- 
Sean Kelly                          
NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory    kelly@fsl.noaa.gov
Boulder Colorado USA                http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/