From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Cutler Subject: Re: Serial port recommendations? Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 15:54:15 -0700 Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3D6AB197.1070106@stanford.edu> References: <20020826224739.GB16112@bob.n7xy.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Bob Nielsen Cc: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org I've had good luck with both PCI and ISA cards from Dolphin. http://www.dolphinfast.com/ I bought two of the cards, took the UART chips out of one, and placed them in the other for a 4 port card. Bob Nielsen wrote: >I just built a new computer (1 GHz Celeron) for the shack. It has 2 >onboard serial ports and I was wondering what would be the best way to >add additional ports. I figure I need 2-3 for packet, one for rig >control, one for RTTY/PSK31 PTT and one for CW keying (5-6 total if I >don't switch connectors). The motherboard has several PCI slots and >one ISA, as well as two USB connectors. I have one old 2-port ISA >board and I've seen USB-to-serial adapters, but figure a 4-port serial >adapter might be best. I haven't seen any of these recently, however. >The software I will be using is kernel AX.25 + DX Spider + Xastir >(packet) and TLF (contesting and general HF use), plus something for >RTTY and PSK31, (I haven't decided exactly what yet.) > >Any suggestions on the best way to get additional serial ports? > >73, Bob N7XY >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hams" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > >