On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 09:28 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Ric Moore wrote: > > > > # setserial /dev/ttyS0 > > /dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4 > > > > Looks good. Man, it's been awhile since back when I managed 4 modems > > each on two machines for my BBS. That route was cheaper than those > > specialty serial cards. Worked like a dream. Didn't have DvD's back then > > either. Gonna try playing "Time Bandits" and send this email! > > > You mean those 8 port cards with the funny cable ending in either 8 > DB25 connectors or a breakout box? Digi<something>. I had 2 of them, > but they had 16450 UARTS. On one, the UARTS were socketed, so the > ones that had hi-speed modems got upgraded to 16550A's. They worked > under Linux as well. I ended up scrapping 14 2400 baud modems. A > couple of ports ended up connecting to another machine running > "door" games. Funny thing - you could not reliably connect two of > the ports together - they would drop data. Yeah, Digiboards. Expensive for the budget I had. I could get a cast-off 486 far cheaper and let it handle 4 modems. Linux used to work decently with a 486 and 32 megs of memory, strictly command line. :) Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================
