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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!pravda.aa.msen.com!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!blackbush.xlink.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uni-regensburg.de!faui0n.informatik.uni-erlangen.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Multiport cards Date: 24 Oct 1995 01:16:24 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 17 Message-ID: <46hb8o$drc@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <814020090.1914@kiss.demon.co.uk> <DGoHuu.KCD@nemesis.lonestar.org> <308A56D6.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >> I do miss the multi-port boards that have no drivers under any of the >> BSDs (or Linux), and that was one big negative. We had to do a lot >> of kludging to make up for the lost serial ports. > >Which ones? There are certainly a growing number of supported >multiserial cards in FreeBSD (Cyclades, Digiboard, ARCOM, Specialix, >etc) and I find myself wondering if we've left any really important ones >out! Comtrol is still missing. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)