🚀 go-pugleaf

Craig Ian Dewick wrote:
> 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!

Chuck a few old Stallion EasyTerm servers onto the thing?

Mark Addinall.

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