Kevin Traas wrote: > > After doing some Web browsing and reading docs, Howto's, etc. I haven't > found too much information (at least that I was hoping for) on using ISDN > on Linux. > > Specifically, I currently have a USR Sportster 128K sitting here in the > box. I'd like to use it in my Debian Linux system. (Running 1.2.8) > > >From what I've found, only a few ISDN TA's seem to be supported under Linux > and they're all European brands that I've never heard of before (in my > limited existance... <grin>...) and that don't seem to be readily available > here in Canada. > > Are other ISDN TA's supported by Linux? i.e. USR Sportster ISDN, Motorola > Bitsurfer Pro, etc. > > TIA for your help, >
Does the Sportster 128K come in external variety? I went round and round with USR trying to get them to give me specs so that I could write a Linux driver for this card. They eventually told me that an outside company had written the SCO software driver and that I should talk to them. That company ignored my emails consistently. We ended up getting a Zyxel TA128U. It's an external and we're only using one channel and it works just fine. Any external should work as long as it supports "PPP Sync-to-Async" conversion. You just set up a dial script and once you get "CONNECT" you return from the chat script and off it goes. It works flawlessly for us here and I see up to 6.5KB/sec transfer rates (one B channel, not two). Ascend Communications is rumored to be writing a NetBSD driver for their ISDN card, so maybe they'll do one for Linux?! -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .