> On Dec 12, 2015, at 2:49 PM, Maurice Janssen <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 09:54:39AM +0000, Craig Skinner wrote: >> On 2015-12-07 Mon 21:30 PM |, Jordon wrote: >>> I recently picked up a few PCI serial port cards from the junk pile at >>> work. My intent is to put one in my soon-to-be-retired Soekris net5501 >>> and install OpenBSD on it to turn it into an 8 port terminal switch. >>> >>> I tried the cards in a different PC just to see if they would work. >>> Unfortunately, none of them were supported. >>> >> >> If you want to get going quickly Jordan, Moxa PCI cards work: >> >> $ fgrep puc0 /var/run/dmesg.boot >> puc0 at pci0 dev 18 function 0 "Moxa C168H" rev 0x01: ports: 8 com >> com4 at puc0 port 0 irq 9: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo >> com5 at puc0 port 1 irq 9: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo >> com6 at puc0 port 2 irq 9: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo >> com7 at puc0 port 3 irq 9: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo >> com8 at puc0 port 4 irq 9: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo >> com9 at puc0 port 5 irq 9: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo >> com10 at puc0 port 6 irq 9: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo >> com11 at puc0 port 7 irq 9: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo >> >> I found 3 on ebay.co.uk <http://ebay.co.uk/> & grabbed them - all with octopus cable. > > Beware, Soekris boards have a 3.3 V PCI slot while the Moxa C168H > is a 5 V PCI card. > > -- > Maurice
Thanks for the feedback. Both the RocketPort and Perle cards I have feature both notches in the connector, so I think they should work in the Soekris board. I would like to take a crack at porting the FreeBSD driver, though I really donât know what I am doing! I pulled in CURRENT today and tried to build it but immediately got a bunch of "ioconf.c:863: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer typeâ build errors. I may try to update again tomorrow and see if it is any better. Jordon
