On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 09:54:39AM +0000, Craig Skinner wrote: >On 2015-12-07 Mon 21:30 PM |, Jordon wrote: >> I recently picked up a few PCI serial port cards from the junk pile at >> work. My intent is to put one in my soon-to-be-retired Soekris net5501 >> and install OpenBSD on it to turn it into an 8 port terminal switch. >> >> I tried the cards in a different PC just to see if they would work. >> Unfortunately, none of them were supported. >> > >If you want to get going quickly Jordan, Moxa PCI cards work: > >$ fgrep puc0 /var/run/dmesg.boot >puc0 at pci0 dev 18 function 0 "Moxa C168H" rev 0x01: ports: 8 com >com4 at puc0 port 0 irq 9: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo >com5 at puc0 port 1 irq 9: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo >com6 at puc0 port 2 irq 9: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo >com7 at puc0 port 3 irq 9: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo >com8 at puc0 port 4 irq 9: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo >com9 at puc0 port 5 irq 9: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo >com10 at puc0 port 6 irq 9: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo >com11 at puc0 port 7 irq 9: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo > >I found 3 on ebay.co.uk & grabbed them - all with octopus cable.
Beware, Soekris boards have a 3.3 V PCI slot while the Moxa C168H is a 5 V PCI card. -- Maurice
