From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 25 8: 0:48 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1FDA37B401; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 08:00:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from exgw2.lumeta.com (exgw2.lumeta.com [65.198.68.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F109A43F3F; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 08:00:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tal@lumeta.com) Received: from lucy.corp.lumeta.com (h65-198-68-133.lumeta.com [65.198.68.133]) by exgw2.lumeta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43AF137387F; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 11:00:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lucy.corp.lumeta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F3E51084D; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 11:00:42 -0500 (EST) Received: from lumeta.com (unknown [65.246.246.104]) by lucy.corp.lumeta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BCB310847; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 11:00:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 11:00:39 -0500 Subject: Re: multi-port serial IO support Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) Cc: Jim Pazarena , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG To: rand@meridian-enviro.com (Douglas K. Rand) From: Tom Limoncelli In-Reply-To: <87adgq4x1y.fsf@delta.meridian-enviro.com> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-21.6 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_APPLEMAIL version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, February 20, 2003, at 01:38 PM, Douglas K. Rand wrote: > ** Jim Pazarena on Wed, 19 Feb 2003 18:38:01 -0800 > ** in [multi-port serial IO support] writes: > > Jim> Can anyone suggest a reliable multi-port serial system which has > Jim> native support for FreeBSD (without the linux compat module) ? > > We use the Comtrol RocketPort cards. I've had good luck with both the > 16 and 32 port variations. The only problem I've ever had was trying > to get two RocketPort cards to work in the same box. (Although I've > not tested it, I suspect that the driver that comes with FreeBSD 4.7 > might fix this, we are still back at 4.5 on that box.) > > We especially like that they are rack mountable and come in high > densities. I'm also a fan of the RocketPort card. I am a little concerned that the first time you use it, the driver logs to dmesg: WARNING: driver rp should register devices with make_dev() (dev_t = "#rp/0x10082") Has the driver been updated since FreeBSD 4.5? (Yeah, our RocketPorts are on older machines... a testament to how reliable FreeBSD 4.x is :-) ...we haven't needed to upgrade them). My other concern is that the RocketPorts have RJ45 connectors and finding the right cable is sometimes difficult. They look like modern Cisco RJ45 serial ports, but they aren't compatible. I wish there was a vendor that I could call and say, "Hi! I have this weird device... here's my credit-card #... send me the right cable for my console server." --tal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message