From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 18 19:59:28 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BD7F1065675 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:59:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david.robillard@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.224]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA6D78FC1E for ; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:59:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david.robillard@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i29so633189wxd.7 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:59:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=R3nA77dkd9ZRyJ+fff2POOvVxF0h54VaFuRd422JWlI=; b=FzJGJhXzpLt0H0Td4Mj6+Z/C2H81eFUeS7SsVkK5vv6Ao7kNUVrEuNhbuW+zLFnx7zPxtCgW2usTVX5yCyjgUrtY6b0rBwrzeNmqYdkgH5wsAGQVGOCBjxxv2HphcTxVgysQA8uu/nJxsxl6c7wRn70mk9tgO5HxGj/O4hHjmrA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=sLTMkDf7DSqonktLhpeXKYr8ry8sRXVpdurpMVlS/ANEq3ZvGy6VsM0kr7fKpc7qDXsy496VP+vXCkcZUT+yTdu2ntmy5Adm8uFnnD/E0BPhGZSNXfdmGAGSonnJ3OGxWQMPKfVhHIVt0wyQ6XL17CAGG0sY6dRGmM+4tGCwjw4= Received: by 10.141.163.12 with SMTP id q12mr1786775rvo.190.1208548761776; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:59:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.126.11 with HTTP; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:59:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <226ae0c60804181259i6d339dc1lc6983facfb0541ca@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:59:21 -0400 From: "David Robillard" To: "Matthew Smith" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Support for Stallion Serial Controllers in FreeBSD 7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:59:28 -0000 > From some reading I have been doing including here: > > > ...I have been given to understand that FreeBSD supports Stallion multiport > serial cards, provided that I enable it in the kernel. > > However, the link in the document above to stl comes up with nothing, > I can find no other references doing a site search and doing: > > grep -r -i stallion * We still have an old FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE-p26 machine lying around only because it's using those Stallion multiport serial cards. It's working, but it's quite annoying to keep such an old FreeBSD version online. We had to isolate this machine into it's own network DMZ since version 4.11 isn't covered by the FreeBSD Security team. To get around this problem, we recently built another console server with a Digi Digiboard PCI PC/Xem card on FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p12. It's working great, so we're going to ditch the old Stallion cards. Unless of course someone ports the stl(4) driver to FreeBSD 7.x If you'd like to read the documentation on how I've setup the console server with both the Digi board and the Stallion cards, check http://wiki.zerocatastrophe.com/wiki/UNIX/FreeBSD/ConsoleServer HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122