> > 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)
> 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. Right now, I'm pretty sure USR only provides the Sportster as internal. > 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). Thanks for the info. One thing I'm interested in is configuring things so that I can establish a 1 or 2 B channel connection on demand. My ISP supports Multilink PPP; therefore, I'd like to set things up so that if I know I'm going to be needing all the bandwidth I can get, I'll establish the connection using the two B channels. (It would be great if the Linux box could be set to timeout after a period of bandwidth "saturation", drop the single B channel connection, and then reconnect using both B channels....) The other problem I've got is in using an external ISDN TA and both B channels is that I'm going to have to have a high-end serial port that supports 230,400bps or more if possible.... Right now, the Linux box I'm using to connect to my ISP is only using a 16450 UART. I'll have to upgrade that, too. I wonder if I can drive a 16550 beyond 115,200.... > Ascend Communications > is rumored to be writing a NetBSD driver for their ISDN card, so > maybe they'll do one for Linux?! Wouldn't it be nice? And much easier on all of us... <grin> Maybe a little "pressure" (i.e. read "demand" from the Linux community) would entice them to do so. Thanks alot for the info, Jens Kevin Traas Systems Analyst Edmondson Roper CA http://www.eroper.bc.ca -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
