Re: GLUG: What serial card to use?

[Craig Schlenter <craig@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

[SNIP]
> In fact, you couldn't get configurable 2 port ISA
> serial cards, and I recall that Steve had cut one of
> the traces on a card to rejumper the IRQ. 

Did that the other day to get a dumb two port ISA card to work in
my machine :) It was jumperable but not to any of the free IRQs
so I attacked it with a soldering iron and bits of wire and it
came around to my way of thinking.

A bit of feedback for other readers of glug following events:

The card I mentioned originally (decision computer international pccom8,
8 port pci card, much cheaper than any of the smart cards) has arrived
on my desk and appears to be working in my machine so far with some
light testing. The card does require mods to the serial driver but
fortunately it's mostly a couple of #defines and walking the pci bus to
find the card and the standard linux serial driver does the rest.

Cheers,

--Craig