From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 9 11: 4:27 2002 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 50FA037B400 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 11:04:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from arg1.demon.co.uk (arg1.demon.co.uk [62.49.12.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2FDA43E42 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 11:04:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from arg-bsd@arg1.demon.co.uk) Received: by arg1.demon.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 0BD499B02; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 19:04:25 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arg1.demon.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 089495D0C; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 19:04:25 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 19:04:24 +0100 (BST) From: Andrew Gordon X-X-Sender: To: Mike Tancsa Cc: Subject: Re: cheap PCI multiport serial card for FreeBSD ? In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020709082503.01c267f0@192.168.0.12> Message-ID: <20020709185809.D25196-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Mike Tancsa wrote: > I have a remote pop where I want to moitor the UPSes that are there. I only > have one FreeBSD box, but a number of devices in addition to the UPS that I > would like to talk to via serial cable. Are there any supported PCI serial > cards that work under FreeBSD ? I dont need high speed cards, just ones > that would do 9600. The hardware does not take ISA cards, so it needs to be > serial. Have you considered using USB serial adaptors instead? I find this makes for more convenient plumbing in some circumstances and is not necessarily any more expensive. Admittedly, there is no intrinsic support for serial<->USB adaptors in -stable, but the code I use for talking to them via UGEN can be found at http://www.arg1.demon.co.uk/freebsd.html The adaptors that I use can be found at http://www.dontronics.com/usb_232.html No particular merit to these over any other (if you can find driver support) - I just used them because I was using the same chips in another project. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message