From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Oct 30 09:18:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA09701 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 09:18:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from shell1.aimnet.com (tbrinck@shell1.aimnet.com [204.247.0.210]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA09681 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 09:17:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from tbrinck@localhost) by shell1.aimnet.com (8.8.2/SHELL) id JAA25072; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 09:17:23 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 09:17:22 -0800 (PST) From: Toby Brinck To: "Matthew A. Gessner" cc: FreeBSD Hardware group Subject: Re: multiport I/O cards In-Reply-To: <326E72B9.41C67EA6@aristar.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hey Matthew, We have found at work that the Boca 16 port and even the 8 port cards are a great, relilable, and cheap solution for serial MUX's. The BOCA is not anything very complicated (it doesn't have the i960 serial processer) or fast, but if all you are going to do is hook VT100 terminals to it, the BOCA should work fine. There is sone twkeking that needs to be done to the kernel configuration file that is fairly simple also. Toby Brinck On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, Matthew A. Gessner wrote: > Hi, all, > > We're looking for a cheap solution to a database problem. We're going > to host FreeBSD on an old Dell 386DX/33 machine w/ 8MB RAM and an old > Sony CD-ROM. We need to have multiple serial ports, so we need a > multiport card. Can anyone suggest (a) a brand, (b) a supplier, and (c) > a reasonable cost? > > Thanks! > -- > Matthew Gessner, Computer Scientist, > Aristar, Inc. > 302 N. Cleveland-Massillon Rd. > Akron, OH 44333 > Voice (330) 668-2267, Fax (330) 668-2961 >