[TriLUG] Serial pci card

[Marvin Blackburn]

Guys, 

Thanks fro you help on this issue.
We are currently chasing down some of the suggestions.
Well post what we find.

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Marvin Blackburn
Systems Administrator
Glen Raven
"He's no failure.  He's not dead yet" --William Lloyd George   

> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org 
> [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf Of Paul D. Boyle
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 1:20 PM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Serial pci card
> 
> Aaron S. Joyner wrote:
> > Marvin Blackburn wrote:
> > >We need to put in a serial pci card into a system running either 
> > >redhat 9.0, redhat AS 3.0, ES 3.0, AS 2.1, or ES 2.1.  We couldn't 
> > >find any hardware listed on the compatibility list at redhat.
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > The standard answer is the Comtrol RocketPort series, or a Digi 
> > AccelePort board.  From a quick glance at the RH hardware 
> > compatibility list, it appears Digi has certified their 
> AccelePort RAS 
> > 8 (a variation on their serial cards that also has a modem chipset 
> > lined up on each serial port:
> 
> I've used a Cyclades (ISA bus) multiport serial card without 
> a problem for about 8 years now.  I know there are PCI 
> versions of the card.
> The Cyclades driver has been in the stock linux kernel since 
> forever, and was one of the first multiport serial cards to 
> be included in the kernel.
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
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