On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > Howdy, > > for a test setup I need a PC with 4 serial ports (ppp server). > Can I simply plugin any PCI board with 2 serial ports or will > I need any hardware specific drivers? I believe this used to work > fine with an ISA board with 2 serial ports but I have never tried > a PCI version and I can only find PCI serial boards nowadays. > I guess it should be fine but it would be nice if somebody could > say "Hey, I tried it and it works without problems".
I'm no expert on PCI matters, but when I wanted 4 ports I bought a 4 port serial card with setable IRQs. Assuming that you have enough spare interrupts, you then set the card, edit setserial and inittab and the job's done. For 8 or more ports I would investigate the smart cards that use only one interrupt. The hardare HOWTO deals with these. I understand that PCI can share interrupts, but that is way beyond me. HTH Lindsay =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perth, Western Australia voice +61 8 9316 2486 32.0125S 115.8445E Debian Linux =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
