Drivers for Planet ISDN 2B R461C?

[greystash]

Does anyone have the drivers for this card? It's unrecognized by my system and I can't find the drivers anywhere

 

[NJRoadfan]

Do you have a BRI ISDN line to hook it up to? Phone companies in the US have long since stopped offering the service to new customers. Might not be worth the hassle.

 

[greystash]

No I don’t all that is long gone here in NZ, but the card has an Ethernet port so I thought I might be able to use it as an Ethernet device? Would this make sense?

 

[cheesestraws]

the card has an Ethernet port

Just because it's RJ-45 doesn't mean it's Ethernet!  ISDN, confusingly, can also use RJ-45 jacks and transmit over CAT5/whatever cable, but the pinouts and signalling are quite, quite different.

 

[Cory5412]

Mirroring that, there's a very good chance that that's a serial console port or a voice channel output port or something similar to that.

ISDN and Ethernet were both expensive enough whenever that card was new that a combination ISDN-Ethernet card seems moderately unlikely as a product.

 

[greystash]

Ah bugger that’s a shame. Thanks for the info! Looks like I’ll have to get one of the Asante AAUI adaptors instead. 

 

[NJRoadfan]

Its likely a RJ-14 port. BRI ISDN was either 2-wire (U interface, common in USA) or 4-wire (S/T interface, common elsewhere, requires NT1).

 

[cheesestraws]

Its likely a RJ-14 port. BRI ISDN was either 2-wire (U interface, common in USA) or 4-wire (S/T interface, common elsewhere, requires NT1).

For distribution, I believe RJ-45 was also used, with the extra 4 pins being used for power, or something similar.