FreeBSD and libcapi20 with Remote-Capi

[Hans Petter Selasky]

Hi Patrick,

Are these Bintec ISDN-routers CAPI clients or are they CAPI servers?

If you want we can discuss on phone/AIM/ICQ/IRC/MSN etc ...

--HPS

On Wednesday 04 June 2008, Patrick Hurrelmann wrote:
> Hi Hans-Petter,
>
> first I'd like to thank you for your awesome work and effort to bring
> FreeBSD's usb and isdn support forward and to keep it alive. Thank you
> very much!
>
> Now as it seems that updated usb-support is quite near I'm facing new
> problems that i cannot currently handle. As I probably don't know how to
> describe it best, I will simply start with the aim that I'd like to
> achieve.
>
> Connect to several Bintec ISDN-routers via Remote-Capi. A Java-based
> software is installed locally on FreeBSD 7.0 boxes and it needs to
> connect to those Bintec-Routers by Remote-Capi. Now there's a
> JNI-wrapper for Java that calls libcapi20.so (called jcapi, see
> jcapi.sf.net).
>
> So what I'm basically missing is a libcapi20 for FreeBSD that is either
> Remote-Capi capable or your valuable help or suggestions as a FreeBSD
> isdn and kernel hacker. Additionally there is also an old library
> provided by Bintec itself with Remote-Capi support, but i fail to
> understand how to plug it in into the whole system (and fail to change
> the Makefile to build shared libs instead of static ones). This old
> library is available at
> ftp://ftp.bintec.de/pub/libcapi/capi_1.7.5.tar.gz
>
> I'm also forwarding this to freebsd-isdn@ as maybe others have already
> faced this problem, although i could not find any references across the
> net about this.
>
> Help or any hints are really appreciated, as I need to handle this and
> this block communication via ISDN. If I can't solve/work around this
> issue I will have to move the whole application from FreeBSD to Linux :/
>
>
> Best regards from Germany
>
> Patrick Hurrelmann