From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 9 11:36:53 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 6EB3B37B400 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 11:36:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsidian.sentex.ca (obsidian.sentex.ca [64.7.128.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4F2A43E09 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 11:36:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from simian.sentex.net (pyroxene.sentex.ca [199.212.134.18]) by obsidian.sentex.ca (8.12.5/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g69IalmW022229; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 14:36:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020709143455.05b6f8f8@marble.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@marble.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 14:40:33 -0400 To: Andrew Gordon From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: cheap PCI multiport serial card for FreeBSD ? Cc: In-Reply-To: <20020709185809.D25196-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020709082503.01c267f0@192.168.0.12> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: By Sentex Communications (obsidian/20020220) 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 At 07:04 PM 09/07/2002 +0100, Andrew Gordon wrote: >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. Hi, Thanks for the tip! Not sure if this would work for my UPS requirements, but it would certainly be good enough if I am able to connect to another FreeBSD box this way, or to the other network devices we have there for OOB. ---Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message