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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!werple.apana.org.au!troll.apana.org.au!rivendell.apana.org.au!phil From: phil@rivendell.apana.org.au (Phil Homewood) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: PCI/Pentium and *BSD Date: 7 Aug 1994 22:42:30 GMT Organization: Rivendell - APANA Brisbane. Lines: 24 Message-ID: <323o0m$m5o@rivendell.apana.org.au> References: <3164co$lvh@titania.pps.pgh.pa.us><akiyCtyzD2.F1@netcom.com> <180@curnow.win.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: rivendell.apana.org.au X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Brian R. Curnow, Jr. (brianc@curnow.win.net) wrote: : According to DigiBoard, they have no drivers for *BSD(Hadn't even : heard of it). Same for Linux. Are there any 'unofficial' drivers : out there for these boards? How about for similar function boards? : (I'm talking about Digi's multi-serial port boards..) The only : UNIX they support is commercial; UnixWare, SCO, and Solaris. I : have a shelf-ware copy of SCO, so I could probably upgrade to a : better version if the drivers aren't available for BSD. Any generic UART-driven multiport card with a single (shared) IRQ should do fine. Our router uses a Taiwanese board which simply goes by the name of a PE-518 (generic, noname brand). This card has 8 ports, and two such cards can be used in the one machine. The standard sio.c serial driver works like a dream, with no patches necessary - read the sio(4) man page for configuration hints. One catch though - this particular card has soldered-on 16450 UARTs... if you want any decent speed out of the card, they gotta go....... Phil. -- Phil Homewood phil@rivendell.apana.org.au APANA Brisbane Regional Co-Ordinator brisbane@apana.org.au "She keeps some memories locked away, but they are always escaping"