From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 15 3:47:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-2.sjc.telocity.net (mail-2.sjc.telocity.net [216.227.56.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 245FA37BB10 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 03:47:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from otterr@telocity.com) Received: from zoso (dsl-216-227-91-85.telocity.com [216.227.91.85]) by mail-2.sjc.telocity.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA06282; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 03:43:30 -0700 (PDT) From: "Otter" To: "Gabriel Ambuehl" , Subject: RE: USB to serial support? Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 06:41:06 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <93515196172.20000815110537@buz.ch> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gabriel, For additional serial ports, you might want to consider a DigiBoard or BocaBoard. For modem use, look at the FreeBSD HCL first. The Boca 1008 is one that does NOT work with modems, last i knew. -Otter > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of > Gabriel Ambuehl > Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 5:06 AM > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: USB to serial support? > > > Hello, > I'm in need for a USB to serial adapter because I ran out of serial > ports in one of my machines and don't have any slots left > for ISA/PCI > serial cards. I recently saw some USB-to-Serial adapters (intended > primarily for modems, I think but this shouldn't matter) and thought > this could be a solution. > > However, I know that even under Win98 (which > has normally good driver support though not always good drivers) USB > is likely to cause problems and would therefore like to know if > there's support for such a device in 4-Stable? > > > Best regards, > Gabriel > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message