Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 01:17:40 -0500 From: nick thompson <nicholas.thompson1@mchsi.com> To: Nick Thompson <Nick.Thompson@comtrol.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, nick.thompson@comtrol.com Subject: Re: Comtrol RocketPort 550 uPCI, 16-port Message-ID: <47072884.4080604@mchsi.com> In-Reply-To: <B1F576FE19C55C43B8D2E31F061B50C062C3A7@exchange.comtrol.com> References: <B1F576FE19C55C43B8D2E31F061B50C062C3A7@exchange.comtrol.com>
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Nick Thompson wrote: > What that meant was that the driver that comes with FreeBSD 6.2 is an older version of the driver. (Much older, 8 years older I believe.) I've heard from folks who've had success with the driver that comes with 6.2 with certain cards, and heard from folks who've had success after hacking the code a bit with other cards. Either way, I am trying to get things to a point that our FreeBSD customers can be confident that their cards will be supported now, and into the future. When I arrived here, the last release was for FreeBSD 5.3: > > ftp://ftp.comtrol.com/rport/drivers/u_pci/freebsd/5_x/1800255a.tgz > > Since I personally run FreeBSD at home, and can see the value in keeping our drivers up to date with the current release, I wanted to get things up to date. I put in an engineering request for a 6.x driver, and we have it now. > > It's in the beta phase, and we have beta customers running it with no complaints at the moment. I will have to put the link up into this thread once it gets uploaded to the ftp server, which should be by the end of the week. > > Regards, > > Nick > > Nick Thompson > Technical Support Specialist nick.thompson@comtrol.com > Comtrol Corporation ftp://ftp.comtrol.com > 6655 Wedgwood Rd. Ste 120 http://www.comtrol.com > Maple Grove, MN. 55311 Sales: (800)GO-ROCKET > Jeff & the others who emailed me, The FreeBSD 6.2 (6.x) RocketPort uPCI, PCI, and ISA Driver version 1.02 is now officially out on our ftp site. The link is: ftp://ftp.comtrol.com/beta/rport/drivers/u_pci/freebsd/6.x/rocket_freebsd6_1.02.tgz Please feel free to email me at my work address, or at this my main personal address, as I am doing BSD and Linux stuff whether I'm at work or home. And as I mentioned in a previous post, I am the FreeBSD / Linux / SCO / Solaris / etc. person in Tech Support at Comtrol, and I very much would like to give an invitation to anyone with a Comtrol related issue to email me, be it on a weekend at this address, or a weekday at work. In fact, I prefer a cc so that both addresses get a copy, whichever you choose, as it makes keeping track of work related emails that come in on my home address very simple. Also, here are some other links of interest: RocketPort uPCI, PCI, and ISA driver for FreeBSD 5.x: ftp://ftp.comtrol.com/rport/drivers/u_pci/freebsd/5_x/1800255a.tgz RocketPort driver for FreeBSD 4.x: ftp://ftp.comtrol.com/rport/drivers/u_pci/freebsd/4_x/1800254a.tgz Also, we released a new product line this week, and right off the bat we have FreeBSD drivers. The RocketPort Infinity was released a few days ago, here is a link to info about the RocketPort Infinity card family: http://www.comtrol.com/products/family/rp_INFINITY And, here are the drivers for FreeBSD 6.x and 5.x for the RocketPort Infinity: ftp://ftp.comtrol.com/rport_infinity/drivers/freebsd/6.x/rpinfinity_freebsd6.tar.z ftp://ftp.comtrol.com/rport_infinity/drivers/freebsd/5.x/rpinfinity_freebsd5.tar.z The RocketPort Infinity family are all low profile, will fit in a 3.3v or 5v uPCI or PCI-X slot, and can communicate RS-232, RS-422, and RS-485. This is software selectable. Thanks for reading, and I just wanted to thank all of the people who have written me here and at work telling me how pleased they were that Comtrol has people monitoring FreeBSD mailing lists. Regards, Nick "All unix, all the time." http://npt.ath.cx
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