Executive Summary: Anyone have an updated linux driver for an Equinox/Avocent SST-128?
I've used an Equinox SST-128 for serial ports for years. It's a PCI card with a cable to panels with up to 128 serial ports (RJ-45.) It's been very handy, never given me trouble, just plugging in a piece of CAT-5 has almost always worked (there are RJ-45 to DB9 and DB15 adapters.) Just connect some terminal emulator or similar to the device (something like /dev/ttyAG), I've used eterm for no deep reason other than it "just worked", it's an odd fork or rewrite of xterm. But any vendor support is long gone. I think Equinox sold it to Avocent or changed their name and the newest Linux driver is about 5 years old and won't run on anything newer than, well, pretty old, SuSE 9.3, the newest didn't "just build" on 10.x and that's pretty old, 2.6 kernel. And of course the one system I was using it on just died, everything else here has too-new Linux, typically openSuSE 13.1. I'd hate to have to rebuild a 5+ year old linux just to run this one card. SO BEFORE I dig in and try to port the driver I was wondering if anyone else has done this already? -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD | Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool & Die | Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*