Support of ISDN Subsystem under Freebsd 6.x/7.x - amd64

[Sascha Valckenier Kips]

Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> On Thursday 29 November 2007 11:30 am, Sascha Valckenier Kips wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> i will build a new System with Intel Q6600 Quad CPU and more than 4
>>> GB RAM. I need a ISDN-Card into this System. Currently i have a AVM
>>> Fritz!Card V1 PCI.
>>>
>>> On the Hardware Notes of FreeBSD 6.2/amd64 are no ISDN-Interfaces.
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-isdn.html 
>>
>>
>> I haven't seen it myself but your card is listed in there.
>>
>>> Have anybody a amd64 System with ISDN ?
>>> Possible a Intel dual core or quad core ?
>>
>> Unfortunately i4b doesn't seem to support amd64.  Why don't you try
>> FreeBSD/i386 instead?
>
> You will need either:
>
> - i386/RELENG_6
>
> or:
>
> - i386 + C4B
>
> or:
>
> - amd64 + C4B + a bit of unsupported patches i can give you
>
> or:
>
> - Talk to hps if his i4b stack supports amd64
>
>
>
> For 7.0 ISDN support is very limited because it lacks locking.
>
> /bz
>
>

Hello Bjoern,

the i386 Version has a limitation with RAM. More than 4 GB Ram into a 
System does not work with 32 Bit. Only the PAE Only is a way, but the 
support for Devices with PAE is very bad.

The c4b can posible a solution.

Thanks for your answer.

Regards,

Sascha Valckenier Kips