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. Here is the info: *** I had a pair of RocketPort uPCI Octa cards with a P/N of 5002265 They each had the following dmesg: unknown vendor 0x11fe product 0x0805 (class communications subclass miscellaneous, rev 0x01) at pci4 dev 9 function 0 not configured *** I also had a Perle Systems card with a product number of 04003090 The dmesg from it was: unknown vendor 0x155f product 0xb008 (class communications subclass serial, rev 0x00) at pci4 dev 9 function 0 not configured unknown vendor 0x155f product 0xb008 (class bridge subclass miscellaneous, rev 0x00) at pci4 dev 9 function 1 not configured *** I am more interested in getting the Perle card working because I already have an 8-port cable for it (I only have a 4-port cable for the RocketPort cards.) It looks like FreeBSD supports the Perle card (though I haven't tried it. https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/dev/puc/pucdata.c?view=annotate#l820 My question is what would it take to get this driver ported to OpenBSD? Are they very different? Or is it pretty straightforward? Or is the support already there but it needs the PCI IDs added to a list? Or is this ancient stuff with not enough demand to make it worthwhile? If someone is really interested in a Rocketport card, I could probably send one to them. As for the Perle card, I am downloading the current source now and I intend to poke around a bit, but I really don't know what I am doing. My driver dev experience is limited to a very little bit of linux coding I did at work. Jordon
