They said that there's a limited market for the card, the card works for their 2 main customers in their applications, which it has for the last 2 years, and that there isn't a lot of motivation for them to spend more time maintaining the software for the cards for such a limited market.
Their margins are really in the T1/E1 cards and FXO/FXS cards. The issues are a couple, from what I can tell: (a) the same script wants to build, install, and configure the cards... so it assumes the host and target are one in the same; (b) the code was never written to support cross-compilers; (c) it grovels around in places like /lib/modules to try to figure things out about your system. It uses an elaborate and lengthy script to "simplify" installing onto your system (Setup). Unfortunately, the script makes a lot of potentially incorrect assumptions to do so. Such as the host and target being the same. Or that you want *all* of the drivers installed. Or that you want to configure the card at the same time that you install drivers for it. There are no ways to break down tasks into steps, or modify individual steps easily. And no, it doesn't use autoconf, which would have made life a lot simpler. I don't know if there are issues with the ATM modules. I know that it doesn't currently work with uclibc, or cross-compiling on a 64-bit system. Not sure who the ipcop/EMBCop projects are.... -Philip Lachlan Dunlop wrote: > Phillip, > > May I ask what Sangoma said in regards to the S518 working with an > Astlinux distro? > > I figured since the wanpipe drivers are in Astlinux now. How tough > can it be to compile the ATM modules? > > Or are the ATM modules the problem? They will not compile under uclibc? > > Does the ipcop / EMBCop project have this working? > > Thanks > > lach > > On 10/21/07, Philip Prindeville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Darrick Hartman (lists) wrote: >> >>> Philip Prindeville wrote: >>> >>> >>>> So, I was wondering about a few things... >>>> >>>> First, at boot, on the console, I'm seeing: >>>> >>>> cat: /tmp/mydhcpip: No such file or directory >>>> >>>> Do I need to add time in rc.conf for the WAN to come up? >>>> >>>> >>> What kind of WAN connection? >>> >>> >> ADSL (RFC-1483 bridged routed encapsulation). >> >> For now, I'm behind a Westell modem until Sangoma can get the S518 >> supported in this environment. >> >> >>>> Second, do the Soekris boards really not have TOD clocks? >>>> >>>> >>> <snip> >>> >>> I don't have a net5501 on hand for testing at the moment, so I cannot >>> verify any of that information. The net5501 is a new hardware platform >>> and everything may not be configured ideally yet. >>> >>> >>> >> Ok. I'm still waiting for Soren to release the manual, etc. >> >> >> >>>> most of which is suspect from what I can tell. >>>> >>>> What else? Oh, right. How do I set up persistent DHCP entries (i.e. ones >>>> that always get the same address handed out)? I know how to do this with >>>> Vixie's DHCP server, but not with this other one. >>>> >>>> >>> Take a look at dnsmasq.static which should be on your key disk. If it's >>> not, copy the file from /stat/etc to /mnt/kd. There are examples of >>> persistent dhcp entries in there. dnsmasq is responsible for dns and >>> dhcp functions (and can do tftp as well with some configuration >>> changes). dnsmasq is well documented on the internet as well, but I did >>> try to make some good examples of what is possible in the dnsmasq.static >>> file. >>> >>> >> Not on my system.... anywhere. Only dnsmasq.leases. >> >> And dnsmasq.conf. >> >> I'll grovel the internet. >> >> >>>> In the same vein, I'd like to set up the TFTP daemon to auto-generate the >>>> files it serves up on-the-fly according to scripts and patterns (so that >>>> SIP phones like the Sipuras can be auto-configured). Perhaps by groveling >>>> information out of /etc/asterisk/sip.conf for example. >>>> >>>> And lastly... let's see... >>>> >>>> Oh, right. If the Astlinux box is also my border router, what's the best >>>> firewall config for it? Are there any good examples of static port >>>> forwarding (say TCP 20, 21, and 25 to another server)? >>>> >>>> >>> If you use Arno's iptables firewall, it's fairly straight forward and >>> well documented. If you use astfw you can create your own iptables >>> configuration by copying the existing astfw to your keydisk and writing >>> iptables rules yourself. There are many resources for writing iptables >>> rules on the internet. See what you can find with google. Actually if >>> you check the mailing list for Astlinux, you'll probably find examples >>> of this in the archives. >>> >>> Darrick >>> >>> >> Well, it's a moot point for now. My data center is 500 miles away, and >> lost power. >> >> I won't be back out there until Friday at the earliest, so I can't >> rebuild any images anyway. Sigh. >> >> -Philip >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
