From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 10 22:53:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from wombat.bytecraft.au.com (wombat.bytecraft.au.com [203.39.118.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C82837B416 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 22:53:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MJTDEVNULL (unknown [203.39.118.42]) by wombat.bytecraft.au.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 695263FFB for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 15:53:24 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <00c301c1e11d$31788e10$2a7627cb@MJTDEVNULL> From: "Murray Taylor" To: Subject: Low speed sync/async multiport serial cards driver/ usage info request Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 15:53:23 +1000 Organization: Bytrcraft Systems MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Has anyone experience with low speed multi port synchronous / asynchronous serial cards? I have data sheets on the following cards at present (the cards themselves may be outdated or unavailable as one of them is under a legacy tag on the websites), and am open to suggestions on alternative cards that may be suitable. -- Aurora Technologies Saturn MultiPort Series www.auroratech.com -- Emulex Corporation DCP-486p http://www.emulex.com/products/dcp/486.html I am looking for help on drivers, and any implementation stories of cards to use or avoid. I am creating a test bed for a client comms card (in another processor box) and need some multiports cards... so that I can send test data into the card from one process and receive the result from one or more of its output ports into the appropriate number of receiver processes that then update a common result database. This will evolve into a hot-standby support system. I believe that the higher spec cards that are typically used for interfacing to ATM/Frame relay NTUs/T1 links etc may be a - over spec for my speed needs b - have drivers that are to tightly 'bound' to the support of mainline WANs Any help / guidance appreciated cheers Murray Taylor -- Special Projects Engineer Bytecraft Systems P/L +61 3 8710 2555 phone +61 3 8710 2599 fax www.bytecraftsystems.com www.bytecraftentertainment.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message