Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 07:58:13 -0500 (EST) From: Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> To: Penisoara Adrian <ady@warpnet.ro> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Serial Multiport solution ? Message-ID: <XFMail.980304075813.patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980304111640.9298A-100000@ady.warpnet.ro>
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Ady, I have a Cyclades 8Yo ISA card on a FreeBSD 2.2.1 machine with 8 modems on it. I had a little trouble getting it config-ed, but after 5 minutes with tech support at Cyclades, had the problem resolved. The memory address it has set as default conflicted with one of the other devices on FreeBSD. (Don't remember which one.) Watch for that and you should be fine. If I had to do it again, I'd go for the expandable PCI. Cheaper in the long run. One other note: Unless they have changed the board, the DIP switches are very easy to access. Too easy in my case. As I was inserting a new ethernet card, I bumped all the DIP switches for the IRQ setting from off to on. Cause me great headaches before I notice it! Patrick P.S. Make sure you check their specials. I got ours for 50% as a first time buyer. On 04-Mar-98 Penisoara Adrian wrote: > Hi, > > I'm interested in buying a serial multiport card that will be used to > serve a bunch of modems on some leased lines. > From what I read I learnt that the Cyclades cards are most popular in > the (free) Unix world; my choice would be for the Cyclom Ye / 8Y cards as > I'm looking for cost-effective solution first and expandability is on the > second place (but this is important too)... > > How would you comment on these cards ? Did anyone have any problem with > these (I'm going to use it on a FreeBSD 3.0-(SNAP) server) ? > How about the PCI card (Cyclom YeP) ? Should I expect problems with it > (IRQ settings) ? > > Thank you very much. > Ady (@warpnet.ro) > Warp Net Technologies > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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