At 07:55 PM 5/1/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Martin Brown wrote:
>> On Mon, 1 May 2000, Steven W. Orr wrote:
>>
>> > Can someone please recommend a PCI card for an extra serial port or
two? I
>> > looked on buy.com and saw only USB cards. My understanding is that USB is
>> > not yet fully supported in kernel 2.2.14.
>> >
>>
>> I don't know if they make I a PCI card, I bet they do, but SIIG cards are
>> great for ease of installation. The cards come with half the connectors
>> 9-pin and they other half 25-pin. The jumpers for the ports are arranged
>> in a neat matrix with everything well labeled. And the jumpers themselves
>> are extended about 1/2 inch for ease of gripping. There are jumpers for
>> com (1-12), irq (3-5,7,9-12,15), and port speed (115200,230100,460800).
>
>They do make a jumperless PCI card, but for Linux I'd recommend the
>jumpered card you describe, if you've got a free ISA slot. I have one
>myself and it's very nice. Don't use it anymore, now that I went to a
>cable modem and PS/2 mouse, but it's a good card.
>
>From what I saw on their web site, you will probably have to do some work
with the pci tools to set up the card. I know you have to with the parallel
port card... The documention could be better!
Mikkel
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