ISDN card questions

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Am/Um 10:00 15.09.97 +0200 Luigi Rizzo schrieb:
>A couple of questions about ISDN cards.
>
>1) Shouldn't they be way cheaper than a standard modem ? My understanding
> is that ISDN is all digital, there is no need for complex DSP
> operation, and the device is even fairly low speed. Probably an
> ISDN-only modem should cost the same as a cheap Ethernet card.
> (I know volumes are against a low price...)
passive ISDN-Cards in Germany cost about 90$ (150 DM).

>
>2) Any recommendation for a cheap ISDN modem which can be controlled
> with AT commands, or has programming info available so that a
> device driver can be implemented for FreeBSD/Linux ?

Teles (without PnP) work fine, AVM Fritz!Card or A1 or B1 (activ)
Elsa Quickstep 1000 I think work, even PCMCIA Cards are supported.

maybe you join the Mailinglist isdn4linux@hub-wue.franken.de, it=B4s german,
but you can also write in english.

Or you get the FAQ at:

Origins:
 ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/isdn4linux/FAQ/
 http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~ui161ab/www/isdn/

Austria:
 ftp://fvkma.tu-graz.ac.at/pub/isdn4linux/FAQ/
 ftp://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/pub/isdn4linux/FAQ/

Denmark:
 ftp://freja.frontier.dk/linux/isdn4linux/FAQ/

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