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From: mouth@ibm.net (John Kelly)
To: Nigel Gorry <nigel@4kz.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Serial ports...
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 04:22:56 GMT
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On Thu, 25 Sep 1997 11:04:37 +1000, Nigel Gorry <nigel@4kz.com.au>
wrote:

>I am considering purchasing some serial cards that can be addressed as COM1
>- COM8 and have a choice of 9 IRQ's.

Check out http://www.byterunner.com as they have some nice low-cost
sharaable IRQ boards with 4 and 8 ports.  Even with shipping to down
under, they're probably still a good deal.

>Can FreeBSD support 8 com ports in one PC?

With the Byterunner boards, yes.  Just config the kernel for the
correct port addresses and IRQ(s) as a non-intelligent serial board,
the non-AST variety.

John