Hi. Today I tried to do something that I thought should be a rather easy thing to do: Put a HFC ISDN card into a box, install Trustix, use this to connect to the net.
I failed. I first tried Trustix 2.2, and later Trustix 3.0 After reading tons of misleading howtos, the outdated isdn4linux.de website etc, I think I understood the following: 1.) Up to Kernel 2.4, one had to use HiSax/isdn4linux. A whole bunch of passive isdn cards were supported, and worked just fine. 2.) With Kernel 2.6, hell broke lose - there was the plan to implement Capi 4 linux, and make Isdn4Linux obsolete. Sadly this was done even if no drivers were available for this really cool (not) capi implementation. The completely documented-and-howto-free mISDN project got started to provide the missing drivers for passive ISDN cards. As it seems, it's still in beta phase, and not included in stock kernels. Hooray. Anyway, back to Trustix. Trustix 2.2 uses Kernel 2.4 and therefore Isdn4Linux/HiSax. And yes, the default kernel even has HiSax as a module. Everything looked nice on first sight. But reading the how-to's, I found out I needed the isdn4k-utils package to get isdnctrl and hisaxctrl and basicly everything else needed to configure ISDN. To my surprise, this package is only available for Trustix 3.0. Well, Trustix 3.0 on the other hand uses Kernel 2.6, and the Trustix default kernel has isdn4linux disabled. Instead Capi 4 Linux is enabled. To configure this, one would need the capi4k-utils package. This package is not available for Trustix 3.0, but only as a contrib for... Trustix 2.2! Maybe I'm just incompetent, but for me this looks a little insane. Trustix 3.0 should have the capi4k-utils package, and Trustix 2.2 should have the isdn4k-utils package, but it's the other way round. *sigh* Sadly there also doesn't seem to be any docs/wiki-entries/faqs on Trustix related to use ISDN. Please someone who understands this chaos, help me ;) What I'm looking for is instructions to get a HFC-S based PCI ISDN card to connect to some ISP. I guess there are the following possible routes to do this: - Get the isdn4k-utils package for Trustix 2.2, and then hope that one of the dozens of confusing howtos works ;) - Compile a new kernel including the mISDN patches on Trustix 3.0, and pray that then suddenly mISDN und capi4linux together magically form something working (as this seems to be completely undocumented)... Any help would be highly appreciated. Thank you, Simon _______________________________________________ tsl-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss
