From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 6 04:10:35 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8661916A415 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2006 04:10:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from janm@transactionware.com) Received: from mail.transactionware.com (mail.transactionware.com [203.14.245.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5FCD943D45 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2006 04:10:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from janm@transactionware.com) Received: (qmail 79049 invoked from network); 6 Oct 2006 04:10:50 -0000 Received: from new.transactionware.com (192.168.1.55) by dm.transactionware.com with SMTP; 6 Oct 2006 04:10:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 78174 invoked by uid 1026); 6 Oct 2006 04:10:49 -0000 Received: from 192.168.1.51 by new.transactionware.com (envelope-from , uid 1003) with qmail-scanner-1.25 (spamassassin: 3.0.2. Clear:RC:1(192.168.1.51):. Processed in 3.262834 secs); 06 Oct 2006 04:10:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO janmxp) (192.168.1.51) by new.transactionware.com with SMTP; 6 Oct 2006 04:10:45 -0000 Message-ID: <005401c6e8fd$63a3ffe0$3301a8c0@janmxp> From: "Jan Mikkelsen" To: "Karl Denninger" , References: <20061005151925.GA1156@FS.denninger.net> Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:10:42 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.3790.2663 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.2757 Cc: Subject: Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 04:10:35 -0000 Hi, Karl Denninger wrote: > So..... I have an application that requires six serial ports, and would > like ten. 5.x FreeBSD versions are being EOL'd per the announcement, > forcing me to move to 6.x. The Comtrol driver for the "Smart" > Rocketport boards is broken in 6.x, and the PR appears to be one > that will sit and rot. > > What options do I have in the FreeBSD universe here guys? This is a > real no-BS production application that has hundreds of deployed instances, > and it is in no way "obsolete" or something I intend to stop supporting. > > I know serial I/O is passe for many, but some of us have applications that > actually require it, and can't rationally be moved to anything else due > to external hardware considerations. I do serial I/O a bit. I use USB to RS232 and USB to RS485/RS422 devices. There are a bunch of vendors, they are cheap and seem to work well. I have also seen (but not used) 4 port versions of these things, and I wouldn't be surprised if you could find an eight port version as well. Regards, Jan Mikkelsen