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Feb 12 14:54 UTC 2005 |
I've heard that at least one flavor of USB<->RS-232 widget does not work
reliably under NetBSD even though it sort of seems to work, and I have
another flavor of such a widget that doesn't work under NetBSD at all.
It seems likely that the quality of support for these devices under OpenBSD
would be similar.
That said, there may be one or a few models that work reliably as long as
a lot of care is excercised in choosing the right one.
/var/run/dmesg.boot claims there are two serial ports on grex:
pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
pccom1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
It would be unsurprising, though, if one of these goes to a header on the
motherboard which isn't connected to anything.
The other question is what people are planning to do if a PC Weasel card is
acquired, etc. Oftentimes it is desireable to use one serial port as
the console line, connected to another computer or terminal server, and then
that serial port would not be available for a modem. Also, if there is
going to be some sort of terminal server connected to grex's console port,
might it make sense to put the modems on that terminal server too?
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