Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 20:07:07 +0200 From: Michael Bretterklieber <mbretter@inode.at> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cheap PCI multiport serial card for FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <3D2B264B.5040105@inode.at> References: <20020709185809.D25196-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk>
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Hi, some years ago I used cards from ByteRunner http://www.byterunner.com/ I choosed them, because these cards supports IRQ-sharing. It was easy to let run them on FreeBSD, also IRQ-sharing worked with these cards on FreeBSD, bye, Andrew Gordon wrote: > 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 > > -- -- -------------------------------------- E-mail: Michael.Bretterklieber@jawa.at ---------------------------- JAWA Management Software GmbH Liebenauer Hauptstr. 200 A-8041 GRAZ Tel: ++43-(0)316-403274-12 Fax: ++43-(0)316-403274-10 GSM: ++43-(0)676-93 96 698 homepage: http://www.jawa.at --------- privat ----------- E-mail: mbretter@inode.at homepage: http://www.inode.at/mbretter -------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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