I have had excellent luck with both the ISA and PCI version of the Comtrol Rocket Ports.
http://www.comtrol.com/sales/specs/rp.htm Obviously, the drivers are not written for rtl. Ty Mark Hounschell wrote: > > Pasi Kaipainen wrote: > > > > Have you considered using > > http://www.comtrol.com/sales/specs/rpshsi.htm#Portable RocketPort serial > > hub. > > There is Linux source available. I have not used it but it may be > > interesting way to add serial ports to RTL. > > I wonder if somebody has done this already? > > > > Pasi > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Michael C. Riedl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 1:51 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: [rtl] Board with multiple serial ports > > > > > > > > > Hi there! > > > > > > At the moment I'm using two boards with four serial ports each in the > > > same computer. They are ISA-Boards and allow the Interrupt > > > for each port > > > to jumpered individually. For up to six ports I managed to assign > > > interrupts exclusively to serial ports. Then I ran out of interrupts. > > > Obviously I tried the share interrupts but then receiving did not work > > > anymore. > > > As I used rt_com which was explicetely said to be able to handle > > > interrupt sharing I wonder if the hardware might be the problem. > > > > > > Therefore: Could anyone recommend a board with 8 serial ports which > > > allows interrupts to be shared to be run with the rt_com driver in > > > rtlinux? Would you prefer a ISA or a PCI board? It must be possible to > > > set baud rate, stop bits... individually for the serial ports. > > > > > > Thanks for your recommendations in advance... > > www.digi.com. They have GPL Linux drivers. PCI is the only way to go. > > -- > Mark Hounschell > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- [rtl] --- > To unsubscribe: > echo "unsubscribe rtl" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR > echo "unsubscribe rtl <Your_email>" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > For more information on Real-Time Linux see: > http://www.rtlinux.org/ -- Tyson D Sawyer iRobot Corporation Senior Systems Engineer Military Systems Division [EMAIL PROTECTED] Robots for the Real World 603-532-6900 ext 206 http://www.irobot.com -- [rtl] --- To unsubscribe: echo "unsubscribe rtl" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR echo "unsubscribe rtl <Your_email>" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For more information on Real-Time Linux see: http://www.rtlinux.org/
