Re: [misterhouse-users] Re: Caller ID v 2.81 problems

[Neil C. <nc...@co...>]

Gary Sanders wrote:
> Neil Cherry wrote:
> 
>> I'm in the process of moving to RH 9.0 
>> which is being painful. I may have to move many of my devices
>> off the digiboard (epca module is not working) to a terminal
>> server.
> 
> Sorry this is such a late response to a posting - I got behind on 
> reading the MH list (~ 180 messages!).
> 
> Any luck with epca?  I have it working with SuSe 8.1 and a Digi 
> AccelePort 8R 920 PCI board (and with SuSe 7.3 on another 8R 920 board 
> on an older box). As you're no doubt aware, getting epca to work can be 
> "interesting", requiring a fair amount of file tweaking after the 
> installation. It took me most of a day to finally get it to work - there 
> were some idiosyncrasies specific to SuSe that jumped out and said 
> "gotcha" at every turn. Fortunately, most are documented on Digi's 
> support site.

I've had on and off troubles withthe Digboard ISA boards. Work in my
486 (ISA only), failed on one K6 worked on another (ISA & PCI) and
failed on my new Celeron motherboard. I've tried RH 6.2, 7.1 and RH 9.0
and Linux kernals 2.2.x - 2.4.21. Again more wor to follow later.

> Have you checked Digi's site to see if there's a version specific to RH 
> 9 posted yet?

Yup, d/l'd the latest.

> By the way, I've never been successful running 1-wire stuff on either 
> Digi board - I've always had to use a "real" PC port. Most everything 
> else works fine on them though.

The onewire has been interesting (boy did I find out info on it). First
the older DS9097 (note lacks U and -xxx after name) and the Onewire
driver on my web page will only work on mother board serial ports or
the 8250/16450/16550 boards because it was written to work with those
drivers (io port access or certain ioctls, can't remember which). The
new DS9097U-009 works with the Perl library and the either DS9097U
(-009 or -S09) works with Brian Lane's Digitemp program. I'll work on
this later when I get the DS9097U-009. These devices can be moved to the
the terminal server (the older DS9097 can not).

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