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others) simultaneously. See Avoiding IO Address Conflicts with Certain Video Boards
5.7 Dumb Multiport Serial Boards (with standard UART
chips)
They are also called "serial adapters". Each port has its own address. They often have a special method of
sharing interrupts which requires that you compile support for them into the kernel.
* => The file that ran setserial in Debian shows some details of configuring
# => See note below for this board
AST FourPort and clones (4 ports) * #•
Accent Async-4 (4 ports) *•
Arnet Multiport-8 (8 ports)•
Bell Technologies HUB6 (6 ports)•
Boca BB-1004 (4 ports), BB-1008 (8 ports), BB-2016 (16 ports; See the Boca mini-howto revised in
2001) * #
•
Boca IOAT66 or? ATIO66 (6 ports, Linux doesn't support its IRQ sharing ?? Uses odd-ball 10-cond
RJ45-like connectors)
•
Boca 2by4 (4 serial ports, 2 parallel ports)•
Byte Runner http://www.byterunner.com•
Computone ValuePort V4-ISA (AST FourPort compatible) *•
Digi PC/8 (8 ports) #•
Dolphin http://www.dolphinfast.com/sersol/•
Globetek http://www.globetek.com/•
GTEK BBS-550 (8 ports; See the mini-howto)•
Hayes ESP (after kernel 2.1.15)•
HUB-6 See Bell Technologies.•
Longshine LCS-8880, Longshine LCS-8880+ (AST FourPort compatible) *•
Moxa C104, Moxa C104+ (AST FourPort compatible) *•
NI-SERIAL by National Instruments•
NetBus (2 ports) http://www.netbus.com using patch from
http://lists.insecure.org/linux-kernel/2001/Feb/2809.html Discontinued.
•
PC-COMM (4 ports)•
Sealevel Systems COMM-2 (2 ports), COMM-4 (4 ports) and COMM-8 (8 ports)•
SIIG I/O Expander 2S IO1812 (4 ports) #•
STB-4COM (4 ports)•
Twincom ACI/550•
Usenet Serial Board II (4 ports) *•
VScom (uses same driver as ByteRunner)•
In general, Linux will support any serial board which uses a 8250, 16450, 16550, 16550A, 16650, 16650V2,
16654, 16750, 16850, 16950, and 16954. UART. See the latest man page for "setserial" for a more complete
list.
Notes:
AST Fourport: You might need to specify skip_test in rc.serial.
Serial HOWTO
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