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Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 08:47:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: Chris Coleman <chris@bb.cc.wa.us>
To: Robert Heron <rh@mtl.pl>
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Subject: Re: Small office needs more serial lines
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On Fri, 16 May 1997, Robert Heron wrote:

> 
> 
> 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
> 
We use a BOCA 16 port box (Don't use the 8 port BOCA) on FBSD
2.1.7-RELEASE and it works very well. Just have to make a few changes in
/etc/ttys /etc/rc.local   and recompile a new kernel with options
COM_MULTIPORT and the new devices.  We have been using this for over a
year. 

p.s. I would buy all the same kind of modems.  We had trouble when we
mixed different kinds of modems on the same box.  It could have been
something different, but pulling the two odd ones off and using them
elsewhere seemed to be the easiest solution.

Christopher J. Coleman (chris@aries.bb.cc.wa.us)
Computer Support Technician I  (509)-766-8873
Big Bend Community College  Internet Instructor
FreeBSD Book Project:  http://vinyl.quickweb.com/~chrisc/book.html
Disclaimer: Even Though it has My Name on it, Doesn't mean I said it.