Luca Morettoni wrote:
On 11/20/08 17:52, secret squirrel wrote:I use a 16 port digi xem . looks like digi has been very helpful in the past getting it to work with opensolaris.http://www.digi.com/support/forum/thread.jspa?threadID=3393&tstart=30 also works under freebsd well hcl: http://www.sun.com/io_technologies/vendor/digi_international__inc_.htmlI'm seeking a simple (and cheaper) board for my PC, just with two serial port... any hint? Nevada and OpenSolaris should be able to drive most single port PCI generic serial cards, or the first port on a multi-port generic PCI serial card. So, if you have space for 2 PCI (or PCI Express) cards, you should be able to do it. The asy(7D) driver doesn't have support for driving more than one serial port per card. You would need to add suitable driver aliases. You can add these with the command: update_drv -a -i '"pciclass,070002" "pciclass,070003" "pciclass,070004" "pciclass,0700"' -v asy The other option is to use USB to serial adapters. Don't forget you motherboard serial ports. If you don't have two serial ports on the back of the computer, you might find they do actually exist on the motherboard, and just need a suitable header to 9-pin plug adding, and enabling in the BIOS. A similar discussion is taking place on an internal mailing list, and it looks like two of us have produced support for multi-port serial cards for our own purposes. I have a modified asy(7D) driver I produced some years ago which supports multi-port serial cards (requires quite a substantial restructuring of asy(7D) internally), and someone else produced a multi-io nexus driver to which the existing asy(7D) driver would attach multiple times. Neither are in a state to go back into Solaris at the moment. (The discussion caused me to dust off my driver and make sure it still works though.) It would be interesting to know what the requirement is for PCI-based serial ports on systems nowadays. It's clearly less than it once was, but is there still enough to merit getting this support into Solaris? RFE 4969796 "We should support standard PCI serial cards on Solaris x86" has existed for 3 years, but only has one external call record against it. -- Andrew |
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