From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 13 20:43:17 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2ABB16A4CE for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:43:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from luftpost.plosh.net (luftpost.plosh.net [204.152.186.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CC2843F93 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:43:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from plosher-keyword-freebsd.a36e57@plosh.net) Received: by luftpost.plosh.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0A57732606; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:43:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from dhcp-2.sql1.plosh.net (tardis-nat.plosh.net [64.139.14.228]) by luftpost.plosh.net (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:43:16 -0800 (PST) Organization: Plosh Networking To: hardware@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:43:14 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <200311101002.41697.plosher@plosh.net> <200311101342.41423.plosher@plosh.net> <87ad72u6t1.fsf@delta.meridian-enviro.com> In-Reply-To: <87ad72u6t1.fsf@delta.meridian-enviro.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311132043.14340.plosher@plosh.net> From: Peter Losher X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.87 (Carry Back) Subject: USB->Serial Hub support? (Was - Re: Rocketport (rp0) mappingfailure on 5.1-REL) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 04:43:18 -0000 On Tuesday 11 November 2003 09:57 am, Douglas K. Rand wrote: > I went around with Comtrol on this just a while ago when we were > getting another 32 port RocketPort card. I managed to find an old > style card about a month ago. Comtrol at that time didn't have any > plans to support FreeBSD for their new cards. I tried to persuade them > that it'd be a good idea, but I'm not sure I got through to them. FWIW - We have heard Q1 2004 for a FreeBSD driver supporting the uPCI card. In that case, has anyone been able to get any of the various USB Serial Hubs (Comtrol sells one as well as Quatech) to work under the USB drivers (Most of the manufacturers say "Windows 2000/XP") Going to USB would solve a lot of issues (esp as the old RP PCI cards are rapidly going away) Nature abhors a vacuum :) Best Wishes - Peter -- [ http://www.plosh.net/ ]