ctau — driver for synchronous Cronyx Tau WAN adapters
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Deprecation Notice
The ctau driver is not present in FreeBSD 13.0 and later.
Description
The ctau driver needs either sppp(4) or netgraph(4). Which one to use is determined by the
NETGRAPH_CRONYX option. If this option is present in your kernel configuration file, the ctau driver
will be compiled with netgraph(4) support. Otherwise, it will be compiled with sppp(4) support.
The base I/O port address specified in /boot/device.hints must match the port address set by the jumpers
on the board. The DMA I/O channel and interrupt request numbers are configured by software at adapter
initialization. Legal values are:
Port: 0x200, 0x220, 0x240, 0x260, 0x280, 0x2a0, 0x2c0, 0x2e0, 0x300, 0x320, 0x340, 0x360, 0x380, 0x3a0,
0x3c0, 0x3e0
IRQ: 3, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, 15
DMA: 5, 6, 7
The ctau driver supports autodetection. As for all non-PNP hardware, using autodetection could lead to
some potential problems with other devices during the hardware detection process. It is always better to
specify hardware resources manually.
Refer to sconfig(8) for information about the ctau adapter configuration.
Hardware
The ctau driver supports the following cards:
• Cronyx Tau (RS-232/V.35)
• Cronyx Tau/R (RS-530/RS-449)
• Cronyx Tau/E1 (fractional E1)
• Cronyx Tau/G703 (unframed E1)
History
The ctau driver was added in FreeBSD 5.3 and FreeBSD 4.10. The ctau driver for previous versions of
FreeBSD is available from http://www.cronyx.ru/.
Debian March 2, 2020 CTAU(4)
Name
ctau — driver for synchronous Cronyx Tau WAN adapters
See Also
cp(4), cx(4), sppp(4), ifconfig(8), sconfig(8), spppcontrol(8)
Synopsis
devicectau
Additional options:
devicespppoptionsNETGRAPHoptionsNETGRAPH_CRONYX
In /boot/device.hints:
hint.ctau.0.at="isa"hint.ctau.0.port="0x240"hint.ctau.0.irq="15"hint.ctau.0.drq="7"