🚀 go-pugleaf

With Mobility Electronics complete stupidity and ineptitude to even reply 
to my customer support requests in recent months, and the continuing 
failure of their Solaris 9 Sbus card device driver to work, I've basically 
had enough of their software not working and have all but dumped any 
possibility of getting modems to work with the dial-up server machine 
again. Since changing from a PCI-based to an Sbus-based Sun machine there 
have been no end of problems trying to get modems and serial devices to 
work again, even though the setup is the same and apart from device driver 
and base hardware platform differences nothing else has altered from a 
config point of view.

Is anyone aware of a maker of Sbus serial port cards which still has 
current operating system support? I am aware that Sun dumped Sbus support 
when they released Solaris 10 so whatever is left over in Solaris 9 is 
probably as good as it gets.

Failing being able to use a Sun Sbus card to add serial ports, the other 
option is completely rebuilding the machine with an alternative operating 
system such as NetBSD which does apparently support the Magma Sbus cards 
natively.

The only other possible solution which is going to be doable at little 
cost is to get something like a Cisco 2509/2511 or a Lucent Portmaster 2, 
and use that to manage modems indirectly to the server machine. That's 
something I would have done in the past when I had more than a handful of 
modems running full-time with active dial-up connections, but now there is 
only two modems.

If you can think of a solution let me know!

Thanks,

Craig.

PS. Also posted at "http://www.sunshack.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=62"