Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

[Guy Helmer]

Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 03:21:44PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote:
>   
>> FreeBSD's USB support has always been somewhat deficient.  For example,
>> apcupsd can't talk to their UPSs over the USB bus, even though the software
>> itself knows how, because FreeBSD doesn't know what a UPS is and throws up
>> its hands when you plug it in.
>>     
>
> This is false for at least the APC SmartUPS the machine I'm sending this
> from is connected to.  I wouldn't be suprised if it was true once, but
> it isn't today.
>
> ugen0: American Power Conversion Smart-UPS 750 FW:651.12.D USB FW:4.2, rev 1.10/0.06, addr 2
>   
The uhid driver used to grab the APC USB device, but I think someone 
added a quirk in 6.1 to stop it so the ugen driver would get it instead.

Guy

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Guy Helmer, Ph.D.
Chief System Architect
Palisade Systems, Inc.