Re: [misterhouse-users] Multi Port Serial cards

[Scott J. <sjo...@dr...>]

Wayne Wittenberg wrote:
> 
> Y'all may want to check out ByteRunner cards, www.byterunner.com.  They have
> 8 high speed port PCI cards using one interrupt for $219 each or $159 each
> qty 3.  That includes a db9 or db25 octopus cable.  They claim support for
> Linux, but I have no experience in that area. 


The byterunner cards have a linux driver that must be loaded on bootup.  I've
been using the 4 port card on RedHat 6.1 for about a month with no problems. 
The cost was about $110 with the octopus cable. 

The only (minor) problem I had was figuring out how to create the device files
for the new ports since they don't mention it in the manual.  For RedHat you
need to run /dev/MAKEDEV to create the device files.


Scott Johnston