From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 21 13:37:06 2004 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 F407516A4CE; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:37:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5976B43D3F; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:37:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i9LDb4iY027182; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:37:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: "Devon H. O'Dell" From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:33:01 +0200." <4177BA8D.7030803@sitetronics.com> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:37:04 +0200 Message-ID: <27181.1098365824@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: phk@critter.freebsd.dk cc: tisco@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suggestions for decent multiport serial cards 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: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:37:06 -0000 In message <4177BA8D.7030803@sitetronics.com>, "Devon H. O'Dell" writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> One thing you may want to consider is this interesting gadget: >> >> http://www.bwct.de/multi_serial.html >> >> it's a six port serial USB adapter and the man behind the company >> is tisco@freebsd.org >> >> To make it 100% ideal for me, it would have a reed-relay output >> next to each serial port, so that I can use it as a remote reset >> as well. > >Thanks, PHK. > >This indeed looks very interesting, and might be ideal as I do live in >Holland, so it won't be a big hassle to ship things. Interestingly, I >took a look at their site, and they appear to have a ready-made 1U, >18-port console + relay solution for only 567EUR, which might be ideal >for me. > >I'm definitely going to ask for more information on this. That looks very interesting indeed, although I think I would still prefer to have the usb's in three decentralized units. Bernd: Can we have some more info please ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.