Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

[Mike Tancsa]

At 11:19 AM 10/5/2006, Karl Denninger wrote:

>So what do I buy to replace this thing?  Well, looking at the serial
>hardware claimed supported, I seem to have a problem finding anything I can
>actually purchase!  I don't need real high performance - a "16550" based
>multiport card is fine.  I also don't want a $1500 solution - this isn't
>a $1500 problem.  $500 seems reasonable.

I use a lot of 4 port Lava cards on RELENG_6.  They are about $80 
CDN. I have also used the PCI cards and USB FTDI based adaptors in 
the past at http://www.byterunner.com/

puc1: <Lava Computers Quattro-PCI serial port> port 
0xbc00-0xbc07,0xb800-0xb807 irq 17 at device 2.0 on pci1
sio5: <Lava Computers Quattro-PCI serial port> on puc1
sio5: type 16550A
sio5: unable to activate interrupt in fast mode - using normal mode
sio6: <Lava Computers Quattro-PCI serial port> on puc1
sio6: type 16550A
sio6: unable to activate interrupt in fast mode - using normal mode
puc2: <Lava Computers Quattro-PCI serial port> port 
0xc400-0xc407,0xc000-0xc007 irq 17 at device 2.1 on pci1
sio7: <Lava Computers Quattro-PCI serial port> on puc2
sio7: type 16550A
sio7: unable to activate interrupt in fast mode - using normal mode
sio8: <Lava Computers Quattro-PCI serial port> on puc2
sio8: type 16550A
sio8: unable to activate interrupt in fast mode - using normal mode

I have one box where 2 4 port cards live together (zoo.freebsd.org)

[zoo]% uname -a
FreeBSD zoo.freebsd.org 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #6: Fri Aug 18 
06:16:39 EDT 2006     rwatson at zoo.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ZOO  i386
[zoo]%

puc0: <Lava Computers Quattro-PCI serial port> port 
0xdf00-0xdf07,0xde00-0xde07 irq 20 at device 0.0 on pci2
sio4: <Lava Computers Quattro-PCI serial port> on puc0
sio4: type 16550A
sio4: unable to activate interrupt in fast mode - using normal mode
sio5: <Lava Computers Quattro-PCI serial port> on puc0
sio5: type 16550A
sio5: unable to activate interrupt in fast mode - using normal mode
puc1: <Lava Computers Quattro-PCI serial port> port 
0xdd00-0xdd07,0xdc00-0xdc07 irq 20 at device 0.1 on pci2
sio6: <Lava Computers Quattro-PCI serial port> on puc1
sio6: type 16550A
sio6: unable to activate interrupt in fast mode - using normal mode
sio7: <Lava Computers Quattro-PCI serial port> on puc1
sio7: type 16550A
sio7: unable to activate interrupt in fast mode - using normal mode
puc2: <Lava Computers Quattro-PCI serial port> port 
0xdb00-0xdb07,0xda00-0xda07 irq 21 at device 1.0 on pci2
sio8: <Lava Computers Quattro-PCI serial port> on puc2
sio8: type 16550A
sio8: unable to activate interrupt in fast mode - using normal mode
sio9: <Lava Computers Quattro-PCI serial port> on puc2
sio9: type 16550A
sio9: unable to activate interrupt in fast mode - using normal mode
puc3: <Lava Computers Quattro-PCI serial port> port 
0xd900-0xd907,0xd800-0xd807 irq 21 at device 1.1 on pci2
sio10: <Lava Computers Quattro-PCI serial port> on puc3
sio10: type 16550A
sio10: unable to activate interrupt in fast mode - using normal mode
sio11: <Lava Computers Quattro-PCI serial port> on puc3
sio11: type 16550A
sio11: unable to activate interrupt in fast mode - using normal mode

         ---Mike