On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 12:20:01PM +0200, Jiri Srain wrote:
On 08/16/2013 11:39 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
Stefan Seyfried wrote:
Am 16.08.2013 10:33, schrieb Per Jessen:
Jiri Srain wrote:
If anyone is interested, I'd be happy to donate some ISDN cards.
I would donate some, too. The problem is: usually you don't find computers where you can plug them in anymore, or if you find them, they are no longer supported by openSUSE :-)
My collection of ISDN cards: * a handful of ISA cards (Fritz! Card, some others) * some PCI (not PCI Express!) (Telejet(?) 300 chipset IIRC) * PCMCIA (not CardBus, but the ISA based old PCMCIA, a Fritz!Card ISDN PCMCIA and I think an AVM B1 PCMCIA
I have a couple of Eicon Divas (ISA and PCI I think), and some Conrad TA (with HFC chips) (PCI).
To be honest, some of these modules (ISDN, Modem) should IMHO just be abandoned. The technology is dead.
Yeah, we used to have dial-ISDN as a backup for ADSL, but even that's long gone. It might be very different in other parts of the world though.
That's the reason not to drop them directly. Would the decision be based only on Europe, it would be clear direction to drop them, but in other parts of the world the situation could be different.
Where else in the world is ISDN still used? The kernel side of ISDN hasn't seen changes in a long time, which leads me to believe that no one is really using it anymore. Or that no one is making new ISDN hardware (which is probably the case.) thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org