Re: ADSL2+ PCI card

2009-05-17 Thread John Bond
Thanks for all the responses everyone it looks like the viking card may be what im after. - it presents itself as an eathernet adapter - it has a cli to configure te onboard ADSL2+ router - the network adapter REL8139 is suported by the rl driver Thanks all

Re: ADSL2+ PCI card

2009-05-16 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2009-05-14, John Bond wrote: > or possibly the > Viking PCI ADSL2+ Modem Card -- > http://www.yawarra.com.au/pdfs/XC-P-ADSL2-V.pdf theoretically the Viking card should be just fine. it is a standard ADSL router glued onto a nic via a standard PHY, configured by telnet or web. not currently s

Re: ADSL2+ PCI card

2009-05-16 Thread Tom
Just a FYI.. I used to work for a company that was a reseller of Sangoma DSL cards, and Sangoma have specifically stated time and time again that they do not support BSD even though there are drivers for it. However, this policy was for their S517s which were DSL Max. I don't know if they have chan

Re: ADSL2+ PCI card

2009-05-15 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Fri, 15 May 2009 17:48:31 -0700, Chris Cappuccio wrote: >Rod Whitworth [glis...@witworx.com] wrote: >> >> I have no experience with either BUT I do know that the Viking just >> "looks like" a Realtek NIC to OpenBSD. That was done to make the >> provision of drivers unnecessary. > >How do you p

Re: ADSL2+ PCI card

2009-05-15 Thread Chris Cappuccio
Rod Whitworth [glis...@witworx.com] wrote: > > I have no experience with either BUT I do know that the Viking just > "looks like" a Realtek NIC to OpenBSD. That was done to make the > provision of drivers unnecessary. How do you provision the ATM PVC and ADSL characteristics without a driver to

Re: ADSL2+ PCI card

2009-05-14 Thread John Bond
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:29 PM, John Bond wrote: > Thanks for your reposne russell, what i have read agrees with your > response however i wasn't sure if the rel8139 chip was supported, i > couldn't find it on the hardware list > it has been pointed out to me that i cant read and it is clearly s

Re: ADSL2+ PCI card

2009-05-14 Thread John Bond
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Rod Whitworth wrote: > I have no experience with either BUT I do know that the Viking just > "looks like" a Realtek NIC to OpenBSD. That was done to make the > provision of drivers unnecessary. I just got the following response from a tech at traverse.com.au whic

Re: ADSL2+ PCI card

2009-05-14 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Thu, 14 May 2009 20:55:22 +0100, John Bond wrote: >Hello, > >Im looking into bulding a home rourter device and my obvious OS choice >is OpenBSD however im strugeling to find an ADSL2+ pci cards which i >can use. I have only managed to find to devices which may work > >snagoma data card s519 --

Re: ADSL2+ PCI card

2009-05-14 Thread System Administrator
On 14 May 2009 at 21:29, John Bond wrote: > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Russell Howe wrote: > > > These should work fine - the S518 presents itself as a special ADSL > > controller on the PCI bus, but AFAIK the 519 is actually an ethernet chip > > (Realtek 8139?) paired up with an ADSL mode

Re: ADSL2+ PCI card

2009-05-14 Thread John Bond
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Russell Howe wrote: > These should work fine - the S518 presents itself as a special ADSL > controller on the PCI bus, but AFAIK the 519 is actually an ethernet chip > (Realtek 8139?) paired up with an ADSL modem on a PCI card, so all the > computer sees is an eth

Re: ADSL2+ PCI card

2009-05-14 Thread Russell Howe
John Bond wrote: Hello, Im looking into bulding a home rourter device and my obvious OS choice is OpenBSD however im strugeling to find an ADSL2+ pci cards which i can use. I have only managed to find to devices which may work snagoma data card s519 -- http://www.sangoma.com/products_and_solut

ADSL2+ PCI card

2009-05-14 Thread John Bond
Hello, Im looking into bulding a home rourter device and my obvious OS choice is OpenBSD however im strugeling to find an ADSL2+ pci cards which i can use. I have only managed to find to devices which may work snagoma data card s519 -- http://www.sangoma.com/products_and_solutions/hardware/data_