Messages in this thread | | | From | Diego_Basch@ta ... | Date | Wed, 4 Dec 1996 13:10:38 -0300 | Subject | Re: Linux and Dialogic |
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I was wondering if anyone had any drivers for dialogic boards for linux.
If not, is there any interest in such drivers (besides myself of course)???
I would really like to find some if there are, and if not, I might be interested in working with some others to help create them. Any pointers on this are greatly apprecated.
TIA Greg
I'm interested. I've been working with Dialogic Trunk Boards (DTI212 and D320), fax, voice recognition, DMX and D41 (4 analog lines), at a high level, under SCO and Sun's Interactive Unix. I know some people (the low level developers who supplied our systems) who were interested in writing drivers for Linux. Their main problem was that Dialogic wouldn't disclose the specs for the cards. So you would have to do some reverse engineering. You have to find out how to upload the firmware to the cards, and how to interact with it. I've been told that something like the streams mechanism would also be helpful in writing drivers for these boards, although not strictly necessary.
I work for a phone company with 3 million subscibers and over 600 Dialogic ports. Here at work I have a P90 running Linux 2.0.27 with a useless and forgotten D41 board inside, from the days when it ran Interactive, I would like to give it some use.
I suggest you to contact Ivan Arce (iarce@fuzzy.uba.ar), he's the main programmer for a small company selling IVR systems and other computer and telephony stuff in Latin America.
I think that the main cause of the absence of Linux drivers is the high price of the boards. If you pay many times the price of your PC for them, you certainly can afford a single user SCO license :-(
But I think it would be good for Linux to be able to support telephony applications. I would be glad to see that.
Regards, Diego.
Ing. Diego M. Basch (dbasch@ta.telecom.com.ar) Telecom Argentina
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