[Cialug] Serial Cards

[Matt Patterson]

Sorry, left out some specs...the machine is an IBM x306 which comes with 
1 serial port standard.   This server's main task in life is to be a 
launching point to connect to just about any subnet on our network.  So 
there are a lot of tools in place for network testing.  There are also 
some dial out tests which require modems.  So the serial card will have a 
modem hanging off of each port.  The current box that the 306 will replace 
is a 3U box which is 5-6 years old and needs to be retired.  The 306 is a 
1U box so moving the existing serial cards over will not give us the 
capacity that we need.

-Matt




On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Nathan C. Smith wrote:

> Some of the manufacturers have pretty good Linux support.  Stallion, Digi
> and rocketport.
>
> You don't say what kind of machine you are using or what your application
> is, but a serial-to-USB adapter may a possibility too.
>
> -Nate
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Matt Patterson [mailto:matt at usrlocal.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 3:55 PM
>> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
>> Subject: [Cialug] Serial Cards
>>
>>
>> Can anyone recommend a good 4 port serial card for linux?
>> It will be running under OpenSUSE if that makes any
>> difference in what you
>> recommend.  I haven't looked at these things in a  while and
>> I am hoping
>> that someone on the list has.
>>
>> A quick search on google turned up the following card that appears to
>> support just about everything,  but I'm not sure how much pain and
>> suffering will be needed to get it to work
>>
>> http://www.aaxeon.com/products/Productdetail.aspx?cate=1&modelno=4056A
>>
>> -Matt
>>
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