From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 9 11: 9:11 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 E3C4137B400 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 11:09:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.inode.at (goliath.inode.at [195.58.161.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68E4743E54 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 11:09:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mbretter@inode.at) Received: from line-c-106.adsl-dynamic.inode.at ([62.99.151.106] helo=inode.at) by smtp.inode.at with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1) id 17RzQ8-00009N-00 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2002 20:09:05 +0200 Message-ID: <3D2B264B.5040105@inode.at> Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 20:07:07 +0200 From: Michael Bretterklieber User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: de-de, de-at, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cheap PCI multiport serial card for FreeBSD ? References: <20020709185809.D25196-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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