Re: ISDN testing

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Sun Apr 20 2008 - 21:44:19 EST


Frans Pop wrote:
(Dropping private CCs.)

Jeff Garzik wrote:
- "isn't ISDN dead?" Apparently, no it's not :)

- "don't waste your time, drop these drivers and get mISDN into the
kernel instead" -- based on discussion it does sound like mISDN should
get into the kernel. Until these drivers are dropped, however, my
patches remain appropriate.

And in case people are curious, #isdn-pci isn't ready for upstream yet
for two main reasons: (1) two drivers remain unconverted, and (2) none
of the changes have been tested, even once.

I have three different ISDN cards. However, since I've had ADSL since about 3 years (on top of ISDN), I don't actually use it anymore.

I could be persuaded to do some testing though, or to donate some or all of my cards for that purpose.

For testing I'd at least need somewhere to connect to, preferably in NL.
I have no idea if I could still connect to my previous provider using ISDN. The account was transferred to a different provider about 2 years ago, but the mail accounts with the old provider are still active.

The cards I have are:
- Teles 16.3 ISA -- worked way back when with Debian Woody
- ITK ix1-micro 2.1 ISA
- Eicon Diva 2.01 PCI

I also have a test box I can put them in :-)

Looks like I can still at least successfully load the hisax driver with 2.6.18 for the Teles card. For the last two I'm not sure if I ever had them working with Linux (or even if I tried).

Honestly, a module-load test on real hardware can give us some useful information, even if it's not connected to anything.

My changes are primarily in the probe-the-hardware area, so successfully making it past that new code would indeed be a useful data point.

Check out the kernel found in 'isdn-pci' branch of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6.git

Any help is certainly appreciated!

Jeff




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