Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:42:21 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY? Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.0.20061005163855.137962c8@sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <20061005151925.GA1156@FS.denninger.net> References: <20061005151925.GA1156@FS.denninger.net>
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At 11:19 AM 10/5/2006, Karl Denninger wrote: >So what do I buy to replace this thing? Well, looking at the serial >hardware claimed supported, I seem to have a problem finding anything I can >actually purchase! I don't need real high performance - a "16550" based >multiport card is fine. I also don't want a $1500 solution - this isn't >a $1500 problem. $500 seems reasonable. I use a lot of 4 port Lava cards on RELENG_6. They are about $80 CDN. I have also used the PCI cards and USB FTDI based adaptors in the past at http://www.byterunner.com/ puc1: <Lava Computers Quattro-PCI serial port> port 0xbc00-0xbc07,0xb800-0xb807 irq 17 at device 2.0 on pci1 sio5: <Lava Computers Quattro-PCI serial port> on puc1 sio5: type 16550A sio5: unable to activate interrupt in fast mode - using normal mode sio6: <Lava Computers Quattro-PCI serial port> on puc1 sio6: type 16550A sio6: unable to activate interrupt in fast mode - using normal mode puc2: <Lava Computers Quattro-PCI serial port> port 0xc400-0xc407,0xc000-0xc007 irq 17 at device 2.1 on pci1 sio7: <Lava Computers Quattro-PCI serial port> on puc2 sio7: type 16550A sio7: unable to activate interrupt in fast mode - using normal mode sio8: <Lava Computers Quattro-PCI serial port> on puc2 sio8: type 16550A sio8: unable to activate interrupt in fast mode - using normal mode I have one box where 2 4 port cards live together (zoo.freebsd.org) [zoo]% uname -a FreeBSD zoo.freebsd.org 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #6: Fri Aug 18 06:16:39 EDT 2006 rwatson@zoo.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ZOO i386 [zoo]% puc0: <Lava Computers Quattro-PCI serial port> port 0xdf00-0xdf07,0xde00-0xde07 irq 20 at device 0.0 on pci2 sio4: <Lava Computers Quattro-PCI serial port> on puc0 sio4: type 16550A sio4: unable to activate interrupt in fast mode - using normal mode sio5: <Lava Computers Quattro-PCI serial port> on puc0 sio5: type 16550A sio5: unable to activate interrupt in fast mode - using normal mode puc1: <Lava Computers Quattro-PCI serial port> port 0xdd00-0xdd07,0xdc00-0xdc07 irq 20 at device 0.1 on pci2 sio6: <Lava Computers Quattro-PCI serial port> on puc1 sio6: type 16550A sio6: unable to activate interrupt in fast mode - using normal mode sio7: <Lava Computers Quattro-PCI serial port> on puc1 sio7: type 16550A sio7: unable to activate interrupt in fast mode - using normal mode puc2: <Lava Computers Quattro-PCI serial port> port 0xdb00-0xdb07,0xda00-0xda07 irq 21 at device 1.0 on pci2 sio8: <Lava Computers Quattro-PCI serial port> on puc2 sio8: type 16550A sio8: unable to activate interrupt in fast mode - using normal mode sio9: <Lava Computers Quattro-PCI serial port> on puc2 sio9: type 16550A sio9: unable to activate interrupt in fast mode - using normal mode puc3: <Lava Computers Quattro-PCI serial port> port 0xd900-0xd907,0xd800-0xd807 irq 21 at device 1.1 on pci2 sio10: <Lava Computers Quattro-PCI serial port> on puc3 sio10: type 16550A sio10: unable to activate interrupt in fast mode - using normal mode sio11: <Lava Computers Quattro-PCI serial port> on puc3 sio11: type 16550A sio11: unable to activate interrupt in fast mode - using normal mode ---Mike
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