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Date:      Wed, 23 Aug 1995 12:23:41 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
To:        maher@azstarnet.com (maher katbah)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Boca multiport card
Message-ID:  <199508231723.MAA18577@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
In-Reply-To: <199508230549.WAA01965@web.azstarnet.com> from "maher katbah" at Aug 22, 95 10:49:58 pm

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> Hi
> 
> Does anybody know if Boca 16 ports card would work with freebsd 2.0.5 ? 
> and

Apparently work fine (although I haven't done much with the one I have.)
They're just a pile of 16554's (the BB2016, I assume you have)..  I haven't
used this configuration heavily, but others have, so I assume it works
fine.

> can you use two of them? 

I don't see why not.

options         "COM_MULTIPORT"         #Shared IRQ support in sio

device          sio4    at isa? port 0x100 tty flags 0x1305
device          sio5    at isa? port 0x108 tty flags 0x1305
device          sio6    at isa? port 0x110 tty flags 0x1305
device          sio7    at isa? port 0x118 tty flags 0x1305
device          sio8    at isa? port 0x120 tty flags 0x1305
device          sio9    at isa? port 0x128 tty flags 0x1305
device          sio10   at isa? port 0x130 tty flags 0x1305
device          sio11   at isa? port 0x138 tty flags 0x1305
device          sio12   at isa? port 0x140 tty flags 0x1305
device          sio13   at isa? port 0x148 tty flags 0x1305
device          sio14   at isa? port 0x150 tty flags 0x1305
device          sio15   at isa? port 0x158 tty flags 0x1305
device          sio16   at isa? port 0x160 tty flags 0x1305
device          sio17   at isa? port 0x168 tty flags 0x1305
device          sio18   at isa? port 0x170 tty flags 0x1305
device          sio19   at isa? port 0x178 tty flags 0x1305 irq 10 vector siointr

is what I added to my kernel config for the board I do have.  For the next
16, you would need something like

device          sio20    at isa? port 0x180 tty flags 0x1305
.....
device          sio35    at isa? port 0x1f8 tty flags 0x2305 irq 12 vector siointr

I am not sure that the board will allow you to configure for 0x180-0x1ff,
but the gist of it is correct.

Caveat:  I believe that sio only has 5 bits reserved for minor numbers of
serial ports.  This (unfortunate!) limit means that the configuration I
suggest won't quite work, because sio can only handle 32 ports total, not
36.  You can get around this by removing the support for COM1-4, renumbering
all the ports so that BB #1 is from 0-15 and BB #2 is from 16-31, and
resetting the flags to "0x1005" and "0x2005" respectively.  See sio man
page.

> instad of terminal server, please include a hint
> how to configuer the server and the modems with them

Lots of entries in /etc/ttys, and read your modem manual?  I generally
configure modems for hardware flow, hardware handshake.

> Is there any software needs to be run on the top of the FreeBSD2.0.5 to run
> Web server
> and what is the name of it?

CERN, NCSA, Apache, Netsite, what do you want?

... Joe

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