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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!ping.de!todonix!jan From: jan@todonix.ping.de (Jan Wedekind) Subject: Re: Serial Ports Under 1.1.5.1 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Organization: Private Internet Nutzer Gemeinschaft (PING) e.V. Message-ID: <D9AooL.u5@todonix.ping.de> References: <1995May27.050721.466@turtle.apana.org.au> Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 15:36:20 GMT Lines: 60 Robert Nagy (nagy@turtle.apana.org.au) wrote: : Hi Folks, : Under 1.1.5.1 is it possible to get more than 4 serial ports operating? : I all ready have a 4 port card installed. any efforts to get another 4 : port card operating have met with failure. : I'd like to speak with anyone who has managed to get 8 ports running happily. : In particular I'd like to see what your config file looks like for the : extra ports. Well, (Hi Robert) we (PING e.V.) 're running our main server (lilly.ping.de) under 1.1.5 with 13 ports without bigger problems; the only prob's we found is, that sometimes while booting some of the ports on the 4 port cards are not found :-( an automatic reboot managed by rc.local helps. Greetings, Jan PS: the interesting part of our config file 'PING' options "COM_MULTIPORT" options "COM_BIDIR" #options "FIFO_TRIGGER=FIFO_TRIGGER_14" # 1st AST board device sio0 at isa? port "IO_AST11" tty flags 0x0301 vector siointr device sio1 at isa? port "IO_AST12" tty flags 0x0301 vector siointr device sio2 at isa? port "IO_AST13" tty flags 0x0301 vector siointr device sio3 at isa? port "IO_AST14" tty irq 4 flags 0x0301 iomem 0x0 2bf vector siointr # 2nd AST board device sio4 at isa? port "IO_AST21" tty flags 0x0701 vector siointr device sio5 at isa? port "IO_AST22" tty flags 0x0701 vector siointr device sio6 at isa? port "IO_AST23" tty flags 0x0701 vector siointr device sio7 at isa? port "IO_AST24" tty irq 3 flags 0x0701 iomem 0x0 1bf vector siointr # 3rd AST board device sio8 at isa? port "IO_AST31" tty flags 0x0B01 vector siointr device sio9 at isa? port "IO_AST32" tty flags 0x0B01 vector siointr device sio10 at isa? port "IO_AST33" tty flags 0x0B01 vector siointr device sio11 at isa? port "IO_AST34" tty irq 7 flags 0x0B01 iomem 0x0 1df vector siointr # For high speed serial lines. device sio12 at isa? port "IO_COM2" tty irq 9 vector siointr -- Jan Wedekind jan@todonix.ping.de (home) Lindemannstr. 12 jan@fsinfo.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (FSR) 44137 Dortmund (Germany) wedeki00@marvin.informatik.uni-dortmund.de(UNI) Tel.: +49 (231) 134404 info@ping.de, vorstand@ping.de (PING)