From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Feb 12 13:53:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA28405 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 13:53:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from interlock.wdni.com (interlock.wdni.com [199.221.59.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA28399 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 13:53:00 -0800 (PST) Received: by interlock.wdni.com id AA29376 (InterLock SMTP Gateway 3.0 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org); Wed, 12 Feb 1997 13:51:46 -0800 Message-Id: <199702122151.AA29376@interlock.wdni.com> Received: by interlock.wdni.com (Protected-side Proxy Mail Agent-1); Wed, 12 Feb 1997 13:51:46 -0800 From: Steven Plite Subject: Re: Boca atio66 6 port serial card config;was Re: Wanted best serial board 8-16 port To: LuMark@NAVCANADA.CA (Lu Mark) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 13:46:07 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Lu, Mark" at Feb 12, 97 12:51:00 pm Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I believe it was Lu, Mark who once wrote: > >> I have used the Boca ATIO66 (6 port) cards with incredible success. Based >> on the cards I've seen, you can get 2 6 port cards per machine in shared >> interrupt mode. They are nice little cards, but be sure to buy their cables, unless you have a supply of ten-pin RJ-45 connectors (I didn't. :) I also found that their cables come two to a box (which isn't mentioned on their Web page) so upon receiving my six boxes of cables, I found I had twice as many as I need. C'est la vie. > can someone help me out and give a sample kernel recompile config > example > to configure a Boca atio66 with shared irq. > > the man sio was a little confusing and i wasn't sure if this card is AST > compatible? > > thanx. This is what I use (I have on-board ports at sio0 and sio1, so I start numbering at 2): # devices for Boca 6-port board device sio2 at isa? port "0x220" tty flags 0x785 device sio3 at isa? port "0x228" tty flags 0x785 device sio4 at isa? port "0x240" tty flags 0x785 device sio5 at isa? port "0x248" tty flags 0x785 device sio6 at isa? port "0x260" tty flags 0x785 device sio7 at isa? port "0x268" tty flags 0x785 irq 5 vector siointr options COM_MULTIPORT #code for some cards with shared IRQs _______________________________________________________________________________ Steven Plite Weyerhaeuser Company