Not really a NetBSD question except that it's what I'm using. I got it in my head to see if I could make one of my net4501s fairly bristle with serial ports with an eye toward being a console server.
I have a NetMOS 9685-based PCI 2-port serial card. It's "universal" so should work in a 3.3V-only PCI system like the net4501. I removed the net4501 from its case so I could plug the card in for testing. A GENERIC kernel sees the card and each of the serial ports (show up at com3 and com4). After making enough extra device nodes, 'getty' initialises them. I am unable to get any meaningful response from them. One port seems completely unresponsive. The other produces one character of garbage (probably a transient from plugging in the cable) and is otherwise similarly unresponsive. I have another of these cards which I know works, but it's in a conventional PC with 5V PCI. I'm using a DB9-RJ11 adapter for the serial line. I know it works since I moved it over from the net4501 console port to test the add-on card. (It has DTR->CD,DSR jumpered.) (Just to make sure something worked in the PCI slot, I checked a couple of ethernet cards and they worked fine.) Has anyone else tried using such a setup, or a similar setup? If so, and it works, what PCI serial card did you use? -- |/"\ John D. Baker, KN5UKS NetBSD Darwin/MacOS X |\ / jdbaker[snail]mylinuxisp[flyspeck]com OpenBSD FreeBSD | X No HTML/proprietary data in email. BSD just sits there and works! |/ \ GPGkeyID: D703 4A7E 479F 63F8 D3F4 BD99 9572 8F23 E4AD 1645
