[wellylug] multiport serial cards?

David Antliff dave.antliff at paradise.net.nz
Fri Nov 4 16:12:15 NZDT 2005



On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Donald Gordon wrote:
> For this project, I'm after something that's 4-port, PCI, new, and
> readily obtainable.  Although if you have some old ISA cards you're
> happy to part with, I'd be interested; something to provide serial
> console access to machines in the datagarage would be useful.

What about a USB-to-serial solution? You can get USB devices with multiple 
serial ports, each individually addressable. There are even some that work 
over Ethernet. I wouldn't know what the Linux driver situation is however 
- you'd need to do some reading.

-- 
David.




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