ISDN BOF

Drivers

• hisax (old-isdn, no-longer supported by upstream, ipppd, lots of work to configure it)
• mISDN (new-kernel-isdn, easier to configure, use pppd)
• CAPI-Drivers (non-free, supported by AVM, old ELA, easier to configure, use pppd)

Warty

• basicly no support
• only hisax and mISDN drivers that sometimes conflict when being loaded
• important packages not on the CD

Hoary

• put the needed packages (pppdcapiplugin, misdn-utils, isdnactivecards) on the cd (see ShipSeedProposals)

• modify gnome-system-tools (mvo)
• make a package for the CAPI drivers (need letter), put into linux-restricted-modules (doko)
• kisdn: very nice isdn package(?) someone should look at this (mvo)
• split out capi-utils isdnactivecards package (doko)
• find out about what cards are supported by hisax and not by mISDN and only compile those HisaxButNotMISDN
  • - provide a package with the needed support for older hisax hardware(?) - don't build with the drivers that are not needed

Problems

• Faxing and ISDN: only hyla-fax supports it (sending/recv) and hyla-fax is not going into main
• old hisax driver does not support hotplug/udev, unmaintained upstream
• mISDN: after blacklisting hisax_fcpcipnp,hisax,hisax_isac,hisax_st5481
  • mISDN seems to be only loaded only automatically when mISDN_capi is loaded before?

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