[Gllug] ISDN Configuration

[Rich Walker]

In message <001101c12445$5ea68800$050ea8c0 at thebizz>
          "Andy Loates" <andy at the-bizz.demon.co.uk> wrote:
[snip: ISDN WOES]
> Hi there.

> BT supplied me with a Speedway ISDN TA. As you probably Know they only talk
> Microsoftese, and there is no info/drivers for Linux.
> 
> At the moment i have a Power indicator and ISDN link light
> showing. I cannot however get any sort of connection from/to the
> TA from my Linux box (on COM1 serial port). Are there any drivers
> available for the  Speedway (Can't see any on BT Web site), OR
> WILL IT EVEN WORK WITH LINUX! (I have another 10 days in which to
> return it!). Is there a HowTo/guide for installing this box on the
> net?

The isdnutils  package comes with quite a lot of documentation. I
was able without too many problems to get the internal PCI Speedway
card to work on (severl) versions of Linux. ATM, it's running under
debian, with a stock debian kernel (2.2.18pre21: that's stock as in
"from the CD I had", and it was a non-stock cd...), and the
isdnutils package version 3.0-20. 

When I tried installing it in an older version of Caldera openlinux,
I had to get ISDN patches for kernels, compile utilities and so
forth.

The HOWTO in /usr/share/doc/isdnutils reminds me that I needed to
load the relevant modules. I did this at install time, by selecting
the hisax module to load and telling it, as options, "type=27
protocol=2" which I found the hard way (ages ago) matches the BT PCI
card.

I also quote the following from the isdn4linux FAQ at you:

17. Does isdn4linux support external terminal adapters?
       No, but it doesn't need to. Terminal adapters are designed to
       behave either like a modem or like a network card. Linux already
       supports both modems and network cards without isdn4linux - so no
       special ISDN driver is necessary (which usually greatly simplifies
       the configuration),

At least in theory, pointing pppd at the TA might work. Have you
tried opening it with minicom (or other terminal program)?


HTH.

cheers,Rich.

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