From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jul 11 11:41:37 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 44EBC37B400 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:41:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from quack.kfu.com (adsl-67-113-12-90.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [67.113.12.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7184243E09 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:41:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nsayer@kfu.com) Received: from kfu.com (gate.cenzic.com [66.237.77.34]) (authenticated bits=0) by quack.kfu.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6BIfSKi024209 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:41:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nsayer@kfu.com) Message-ID: <3D2DD156.9010903@kfu.com> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:41:26 -0700 From: Nick Sayer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020611 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cheap PCI multiport serial card for FreeBSD ? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; 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 >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 Check out the archives of freebsd-mobile. I posted instructions for a do-it-yourself MFC of the ucom driver suite. With that, you can use the IoGear GUC232A, which so far as I know are fairly available. It works well enough for me to make PPP links over my cell phone data cable. Joe K tells me he is planning to MFC the whole thing when he gets done with a sub-driver for the Visor hotsync gizmo. If you really insist on a PCI card, I suggest the Specialix SX card/module system. Each card can support up to 32 ports and a single system can support up to 128 ports. It works pretty well. I used to work for Specialix and did a little bit of maintenance on the si driver. :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message