Re: Home Grown ActionTec Development Daughterboard

I have crystals in hand.  Well, actually their sitting in a bag on the 
kitchen counter, but I picked up three today during a trip to Fry's.  
I'll be working with the interface stuff tomorrow afternoon/evening.  
Unfortunately, being a home owner means I have to do other stuff first.

Patrick M

Bruce D. Lightner wrote:

> Patrick,
>
>> That would imply that I had an existing daughterboard.  The most 
>> access to one
>> of the real boards is the pictures that have been available on the list.
>
>
> I'm impressed!  I had assumed you had hardware in hand.
>
>> That
>> has actually made life a bit easier as I haven't had to worry about NDA
>> restrictions and such.
>
>
> True...
>
>> I actually went through all my junk electronics boxes
>> (and even some non junk ones) looking for the crystal last night.  I 
>> think I
>> could match just about any other "common" frequency but that one.
>
>
> Too bad.  If you lived in San Diego, I could probably suggest some 
> places to look...like my house, in my pile of old cir. 1985 PC-AT 
> ISA-bus serial port cards.
>
> A signal generator should work if you have one.  Remember that you 
> could lower the clock rate by powers of two and the Actiontec console 
> baud rate will drop accordingly down from 115K baud.
>
> Also, you could wire up something like an NE-555 and adjust the 
> frequency using a counter or oscilloscope.
>
> Or...you can wait for the postman!
>
> Bruce
>

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