From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 15 13: 4:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom3-061.telepath.com [216.14.3.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1D09E37B63B for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 13:04:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 40818 invoked by uid 100); 15 Aug 2000 20:03:42 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14745.41502.586948.57488@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 15:03:42 -0500 (CDT) To: Gabriel Ambuehl Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: USB to serial support? In-Reply-To: <76728197@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gabriel Ambuehl writes: > Hello Otter, > Tuesday, August 15, 2000, 12:41:06 PM, you wrote: > > 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. > Did I mention I'm out of slots? Only thing I need the ports for are > serialconsoles (no, Portmaster is not an option at the moment, spare > in the rack is getting rare). USB support is changing pretty regularly. If this is a production machine, I'd advice poking through the sources in sys/dev/usb to see what shows up. On my -current machine, there is at least one serial converter in the quirks file, so someone is using them - just not me, and I'm not sure how. As an alternative, you might look at replacing the devices that are currently on the serial ports (assuming they aren't consoles) with USB versions. When I looked, serial converters where *expensive*, costing more than USB modems and parallel converters.