On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 14:39 -0600, Chris 'Xenon' Hanson wrote: > The driver is open source, and there is an (old) version > of it integrated into the OBSD kernel. I doubt this old driver is something you want to > mess with though. > > There is some sort of special-purpose processor on the card (in a big FPGA), and it > does some of the work. Some of the protocol work is done in the driver itself, and not all > of the "internal" code is accessible through open source. I don't have a problem with > that, as long as it works.
Unfortunately there is quite a bit of code in the Sangoma drivers that are binary blobs with no source. It's more than just firmware that is loaded onto the card itself, the binary blobs make up a large portion of the kernel modules that run on the host. The drivers work, for the most part. I've found that the drivers are a bit unstable if you stress the network. Running a P2P client will eventually cause the card to lose connection to the network, requiring a cold reset to get connectivity back. Also unfortunately I'm unaware of an alternative PCI DSL modem. Jeff [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]
