[plug] Clone Cyclades almost

[tony at ballist.net.au]

I did get the drivers fro the dump 8 port card.  Found them doing a
search.  I don't have access to the URL but from mem0ory it was a .se site

Tony

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On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Luigi Cantoni wrote:

> > tony at ballist.net.au wrote:
> > > Well after a lot of swearing and the offer of a trip around Perth around
> > > 10PM I finally got this sucker broken in.
> > 
> > > Firsly the card is actually a PCCOM 8 port RISC card.  Well made little
> > > card and cheap.  The docs suck big time and once you realise they have
> > > hacked the cyclades driver, you will still have problems as there driver
> > > doesn't work quite right either.  Then what devices they tell you to make
> > > is wrong.
> > 
> > > In the end, it all turns out very simple to get it running.  A decent half
> > > pager and the correct driver would it.  I guess it would be an idea to put
> > > things like this on ftp.linux.org.au....Gary???
> > 
> > There is already such a thing on ftp://ftp.smileys.net/linux because I
> > also installed one of these horrid little suckers.
> I use the PCCOM dumb cards with 14550 chips and am thinking of changing
> to Linux are drivers for this version available.
> PS I have direct contact with the makers of these cards having visited
> the production in Taiwan. (Typical little back yard place.) So if you want
> something sent back to the makers I can email it etc for you.
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