From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 10 15:49:24 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 82BDA16A492 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:49:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADADA43D6E for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:49:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GXJqy-0003Tk-88 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:49:12 +0200 Received: from mulderlab.f5.com ([205.229.151.151]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:49:12 +0200 Received: from atkin901 by mulderlab.f5.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:49:12 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: othermark Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 08:48:50 -0700 Lines: 83 Message-ID: References: <20061005151925.GA1156@FS.denninger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: mulderlab.f5.com User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 Sender: news 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: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:49:24 -0000 Karl Denninger wrote: > 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. The following has worked fine for me for 3+ years. I usually just go to ebay and search on "moxa 8 port" and buy some more when I need them. They are PCI based, here's the output from my console server. puc0@pci0:2:0: class=0x070002 card=0x00000000 chip=0x01801407 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Lava Computer Manufacturing Inc' device = 'Lava Octopus PCI Ports 1-4' class = simple comms subclass = UART puc1@pci0:2:1: class=0x070002 card=0x00000000 chip=0x01811407 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Lava Computer Manufacturing Inc' device = 'Lava Octopus PCI Ports 5-8' class = simple comms subclass = UART puc2@pci0:4:0: class=0x070080 card=0x00000000 chip=0x16801393 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Moxa Technologies Co Ltd' device = 'C168H/PCI Smartio' class = simple comms subclass = UART puc0: port 0xecf8-0xecff,0xece8-0xecef,0xecd8-0xecdf,0xecc8-0xeccf irq 20 at device 2.0 on pci0 puc0: [FAST] uart0: <16550 or compatible> on puc0 uart0: [FAST] uart1: <16550 or compatible> on puc0 uart1: [FAST] uart2: <16550 or compatible> on puc0 uart2: [FAST] uart3: <16550 or compatible> on puc0 uart0: [FAST] uart1: <16550 or compatible> on puc0 uart1: [FAST] uart2: <16550 or compatible> on puc0 uart2: [FAST] uart3: <16550 or compatible> on puc0 uart3: [FAST] puc1: port 0xecf0-0xecf7,0xece0-0xece7,0xecd0-0xecd7,0xecc0-0xecc7 irq 20 at device 2.1 on pci0 puc1: [FAST] uart4: <16550 or compatible> on puc1 uart4: [FAST] uart5: <16550 or compatible> on puc1 uart5: [FAST] uart6: <16550 or compatible> on puc1 uart6: [FAST] uart7: <16550 or compatible> on puc1 uart7: [FAST] puc2: port 0xec00-0xec7f,0xe8c0-0xe8ff,0xecb0-0xecbf irq 17 at device 4.0 on pci0 puc2: [FAST] uart8: <16550 or compatible> on puc2 uart8: [FAST] uart9: <16550 or compatible> on puc2 uart9: [FAST] uart10: <16550 or compatible> on puc2 uart10: [FAST] uart11: <16550 or compatible> on puc2 uart11: [FAST] uart12: <16550 or compatible> on puc2 uart12: [FAST] uart13: <16550 or compatible> on puc2 uart13: [FAST] uart14: <16550 or compatible> on puc2 uart14: [FAST] uart15: <16550 or compatible> on puc2 uart15: [FAST] -- othermark atkin901 at nospam dot yahoo dot com (!wired)?(coffee++):(wired);