Re: GLUG: What serial card to use?

[Berend De Schouwer <bds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On  4 May, Craig Schlenter wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Any experiences/recommendations for PCI rs232 serial cards for linux
> that I can pick up locally (and if so where)?

Try cyclades from www.big5.co.za.
They have up to 32modems per card, and the Linux drivers are in the
kernel.  (have been since 1.3.x or something)
 
> I suppose I could live with ISA but I'd prefer PCI so if you have
> good ISA experiences I'm keen to hear those too.

Cyclades does both PCI and ISA.

> Thank you,
> 
> PS. preferably 8 ports but 4 will do too I suppose if I can use 2 cards.
> I'm not necessarilly keen on a 'smart' card. The data rates I need are
> low and I'd rather have something that is a shared irq with 'standard'
> uarts rather than some custom asic and a custom kernel driver ...

Hmm, running 8 stock-standard RS232's could be problematic.  The
cyclades driver is really stable and mature, and support is good.

> --Craig
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