Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

[Matt Emmerton]

> Karl Denninger wrote:
> > So..... I have an application that requires six serial ports, and would
> > like ten.  5.x FreeBSD versions are being EOL'd per the announcement,
> > forcing me to move to 6.x.  The Comtrol driver for the "Smart"
> > Rocketport boards is broken in 6.x, and the PR appears to be one
> > that will sit and rot.
> >
> > What options do I have in the FreeBSD universe here guys?  This is a
> > real no-BS production application that has hundreds of deployed
instances,
> > and it is in no way "obsolete" or something I intend to stop supporting.

Well, you could find (or hire) someone to fix the driver in 6.x, which would
save you the cost of re-deploying hardware.
(I'm assuming that the PR is a statement of "brokenness", and not one that
has a patch that fixes the problem.)

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Matt Emmerton