Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 22:25:07 -0700 From: David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.com> To: maher@azstarnet.com Cc: ports@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org, v@idiom.com Subject: Re: Boca multiport card Message-ID: <199508260525.WAA16566@idiom.com>
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* Does anybody know if Boca 16 ports card would work with freebsd 2.0.5 ? and * can you use two of them? instad of terminal server, please include a hint * how to configuer the server and the modems with them This should be documented somewhere... This is how I have one 16-port boca board configured. Works fine. Unfortunantly the sio driver doesn't take advantage of the boca's interrupt register and so it polls all 16 ports every time any of the interrupts. I tried to fix the driver, but it kept hanging. The NetBSD driver does the right thing (I wrote the first version), but that doesn't help much. I don't know if you can run two of them on the same FreeBSD system. Because of the driver problem, I'm figuring that if I want that many serial ports I'll dedicate a machine to being a terminal server and run NetBSD on it. In every other respect, I find FreeBSD easier to deal with. (Or I did when I ran 2.0. 2.0.5 crashes way too often) -Dave device sio4 at isa? port 0x100 tty flags 0x1305 device sio5 at isa? port 0x108 tty flags 0x1305 device sio6 at isa? port 0x110 tty flags 0x1305 device sio7 at isa? port 0x118 tty flags 0x1305 device sio8 at isa? port 0x120 tty flags 0x1305 device sio9 at isa? port 0x128 tty flags 0x1305 device sio10 at isa? port 0x130 tty flags 0x1305 device sio11 at isa? port 0x138 tty flags 0x1305 device sio12 at isa? port 0x140 tty flags 0x1305 device sio13 at isa? port 0x148 tty flags 0x1305 device sio14 at isa? port 0x150 tty flags 0x1305 device sio15 at isa? port 0x158 tty flags 0x1305 device sio16 at isa? port 0x160 tty flags 0x1305 device sio17 at isa? port 0x168 tty flags 0x1305 device sio18 at isa? port 0x170 tty flags 0x1305 device sio19 at isa? port 0x178 tty flags 0x1305 irq 5 vector siointr
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