Martin Brown wrote:
> On Mon, 1 May 2000, Steven W. Orr wrote:
>
> > Can someone please recommend a PCI card for an extra serial port or two? I
> > looked on buy.com and saw only USB cards. My understanding is that USB is
> > not yet fully supported in kernel 2.2.14.
> >
>
> I don't know if they make I a PCI card, I bet they do, but SIIG cards are
> great for ease of installation. The cards come with half the connectors
> 9-pin and they other half 25-pin. The jumpers for the ports are arranged
> in a neat matrix with everything well labeled. And the jumpers themselves
> are extended about 1/2 inch for ease of gripping. There are jumpers for
> com (1-12), irq (3-5,7,9-12,15), and port speed (115200,230100,460800).
They do make a jumperless PCI card, but for Linux I'd recommend the
jumpered card you describe, if you've got a free ISA slot. I have one
myself and it's very nice. Don't use it anymore, now that I went to a
cable modem and PS/2 mouse, but it's a good card.
-W-
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