From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 15 13:46:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-1.sjc.telocity.net (mail-1.sjc.telocity.net [216.227.56.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CE1D37B5BF for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 13:46:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from otterr@TELOCITY.COM) Received: from zoso (dsl-216-227-91-85.telocity.com [216.227.91.85]) by mail-1.sjc.telocity.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA28492 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 13:44:38 -0700 (PDT) From: "Otter" To: Subject: RE: USB to serial support? Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 16:40:35 -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: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG all this talk of referencing other sites for info and i can't even read what's in front of me.. ACK! sorry about that. -Otter > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Linh Pham > Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 10:08 AM > To: Otter > Cc: Gabriel Ambuehl; questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: RE: USB to serial support? > > > On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Otter mumbled: > > > 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. > > Both are nice boards, but in this case, I don't think > Gabriel has any > PCI/ISA slots left as stated below. > > I personally do not know if any USB to serial port adapters > work under > FreeBSD. You may want to glance at the FreeBSD Handbook under > suppported hardware for a list of compatible hardware. > > The FreeBSD Handbook can be viewed at > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook > > > > 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. > > > // Linh Pham > // http://closedsrc.org > > > > 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