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From: Robert Heron <rh@mtl.pl>
To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
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On Thu, 15 May 1997, Nate Williams wrote:

> What cards are supported under FreeBSD 2.1.7?  I don't want to upgrade
> the box because it's been heavily tweaked for local configuration, and I
> don't have the time nor the desire to beta-test 2.2 on a box that has
> 6-9 month uptimes.

I have experience with ISA 8-port PC-COM and AXIOM UART 16550A cards.
They work on single interrupt and cause no problems. I suppose, that
any UART 16550A based card should work with FreeBSD. The only thing to do
is to setup switches and configure kernel.

Robert