belltech (ne intel) ICC multiport card sysVr4 drivers?

[Stew Ellis]

det at nightowl.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer) writes:

>I have the opportunity to purchase a used belltech (ne intel) ICC
>multiport (serial) card (SN 102, Rev 5) for a relatively cheap price
>($200).  The thing has drivers for Unix system V R3.2, but not for R4.0,
>which i want to move to in a short period of time.  I called intel about
>the availability of VR4 drivers for the card and they told me
>(paraphrasing [:-)] "tough bannanas -- it is unsupported and there are
>no plans to write a new driver for it."  So, does anyone know of the
>existence, public domain or no, of a Vr4 driver for this card and how to
>get it and how much it costs?  Failing that, would the Vr3.2 driver work
>with Vr4?  Failing that (sigh), how difficult would it be to write a
>serial i/o driver for this card?

>It seems like it is a good deal; 80186 processor on the card, 6 smart
>serial ports, RJ-45 jacks on the back, documentation, cables, etc., all
>for $200.00.  But, if the card becomes useless the instant I upgrade to
>Vr4, there isn't much point in buying the card, is there?

>Please send replies to det at nightowl.mn.org as news is aggresively expired
>on this system.

>Thanks in advance for any information/comments,

>derek
>-- 
>det at nightowl.mn.org

Please mail to me as well.  I already have three of the suckers.  We might
hope for ISC to port the drivers now that they are going to be responsible
for end-user sysV4 for [34]86 architecture.  I have heard that they include
ICC drivers with sysV3.2.

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