[ILUG] Dodgy USB ISDN adapters

[Niall O Broin]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 02:34:17PM +0000, Paul Kelly wrote:

> > though unfortunately PCMCIA are a little dearer than PCI (163 Euro vs. 58.5
> > Euro from my favourite German supplier, though I can get a Winbond based PCI
> > card in Ireland for about 40 Euro)
> 
> Does this favourite German supplier have a URL? And what's the VAT rate 
> in Germany these days?

www.zeg-shop.de - German VAT is 16% and the prices I quoted are ex. VAT
trade because that's what I see when I login - without a login you'll see
the retail prices incl. VAT which for the PCI card is 74.90 Euro (as against
67.86 trade incl. VAT - that's 10% cheaper which is as good as it get's for
single items - can make as little as 4% difference)

> BTW, on the ISDN adapter Philip has, whilst there are no Linux drivers 
> for it WinBond has a pretty decent PDF with what looks to be all the 
> specs you need to write your own driver - or bribe someone else to do it 
> for you. There is hope.

Can you not talk to those things with AT commands - I know you can with
Elsa's Microlink USB adapter so it's just like using a serial TA (and no, I
won't go there now)



Niall