Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 10:44:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> To: Bob Vaughan <techie@tantivy.stanford.edu> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: serial ports Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904101040080.378-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <199904100728.AAA19519@tantivy.stanford.edu>
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On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Bob Vaughan wrote:
> i've had good luck with the SIIG stuff.. www.siig.com i have the i/o
> expander 4s (isa), which allows the use of just about any irq except
> for some that are always reserved.. in particular, it allows the
> use of 3,4,5,7,9,10,11,12,15. the only beef i had with it was that
> the i/o addresses listed in the docs were obviously wrong.. but i
> was able to get the correct info from their tech support.. (once i
> got thru..) (they didn't have a web page at that time..)
I've been looking at the siig cards, and I note that they have PCI
serial port cards... they are plug'n'play ... does anyone know the state
of our plug'n'play support, will it work with serial cards? I've
already gotten a plug'n'play sound card working, so I know the
configuration steps with the new loader in current, but the sound stuff
knows plug'n'play, I don't know if the serial stuff does or not.
Would be really good if it did, it would ease the interrupt load on the
machine at very high baud rate, not having to use the slow ISA bus. I'd
run my ppp thru it, and use the existing slower ports for mouse and palm
pilot interfacing.
>
>
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