Re: [Soekris] Two PCI peripherals on one unit?

2008-08-22 Thread Marc Balmer
* Lars Noodén wrote: > Marc Balmer wrote: > > * Chris Babcock wrote: > >> Keyspan has a quad-port USB serial adapter. > >> > >> http://www.keyspan.com/products/usa49wg/ > > > > keyspan adapters require firmware to be loaded. check if your OS > > supports them. > > These will be running OpenBSD.

Re: [Soekris] Two PCI peripherals on one unit?

2008-08-22 Thread Lars Noodén
Marc Balmer wrote: > * Chris Babcock wrote: >> Keyspan has a quad-port USB serial adapter. >> >> http://www.keyspan.com/products/usa49wg/ > > keyspan adapters require firmware to be loaded. check if your OS > supports them. These will be running OpenBSD. I'll keep the Keyspan adapters in mind, b

Re: [Soekris] Two PCI peripherals on one unit?

2008-08-22 Thread Chris Babcock
Marc Balmer wrote: > * Chris Babcock wrote: >> Lars Noodén wrote: >>> Maurice Janssen wrote: On Friday, August 22, 2008 at 10:55:37 +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: > I'm looking into a project that appears to require two PCI cards > operating at the same time: one 4 port serial PCI card and

Re: [Soekris] Two PCI peripherals on one unit?

2008-08-22 Thread Marc Balmer
* Chris Babcock wrote: > Lars Noodén wrote: > > Maurice Janssen wrote: > >> On Friday, August 22, 2008 at 10:55:37 +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: > >>> I'm looking into a project that appears to require two PCI cards > >>> operating at the same time: one 4 port serial PCI card and one PCI Dual > >>> eth

Re: [Soekris] Two PCI peripherals on one unit?

2008-08-22 Thread Chris Babcock
Lars Noodén wrote: > Maurice Janssen wrote: >> On Friday, August 22, 2008 at 10:55:37 +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: >>> I'm looking into a project that appears to require two PCI cards >>> operating at the same time: one 4 port serial PCI card and one PCI Dual >>> ethernet board. >> Why not use serial

Re: [Soekris] Two PCI peripherals on one unit?

2008-08-22 Thread Maurice Janssen
On Friday, August 22, 2008 at 11:19:24 +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: >Maurice Janssen wrote: >> On Friday, August 22, 2008 at 10:55:37 +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: >>> I'm looking into a project that appears to require two PCI cards >>> operating at the same time: one 4 port serial PCI card and one PCI Du

Re: [Soekris] Two PCI peripherals on one unit?

2008-08-22 Thread Lars Noodén
Maurice Janssen wrote: > On Friday, August 22, 2008 at 11:19:24 +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: >> ... Which hardware gives 4 serial ports from 1 USB? > > I'm quite happy with products from Vcsom: > http://www.vscom.de/1_1_09.htm > > But I'm sure there are many other products available. It seems it m

Re: [Soekris] Two PCI peripherals on one unit?

2008-08-22 Thread Lars Noodén
Wim Vandeputte Mailing list only wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:31:37AM +0300, Lars Nood??n wrote: >> How about backplanes of some kind? > > you mean split the PCI bus and have 2 connectors? Not sure if that > even works reliable. > > Anyways, you'd need a case as wel to fit everything in

Re: [Soekris] Two PCI peripherals on one unit?

2008-08-22 Thread Wim Vandeputte Mailing list only
hey, On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:19:24AM +0300, Lars Nood??n wrote: > Maurice Janssen wrote: > > On Friday, August 22, 2008 at 10:55:37 +0300, Lars Nood??n wrote: > >> I'm looking into a project that appears to require two PCI cards > >> operating at the same time: one 4 port serial PCI card and o

Re: [Soekris] Two PCI peripherals on one unit?

2008-08-22 Thread Lars Noodén
Wim Vandeputte Mailing list only wrote: > hey, > > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 10:55:37AM +0300, Lars Nood??n wrote: >> The idea is to have 1 serial port available for each ethernet port and >> then have one or two left over for other tasks. Is there Soekris >> hardware that can do this? If not can

Re: [Soekris] Two PCI peripherals on one unit?

2008-08-22 Thread Lars Noodén
Maurice Janssen wrote: > On Friday, August 22, 2008 at 10:55:37 +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: >> I'm looking into a project that appears to require two PCI cards >> operating at the same time: one 4 port serial PCI card and one PCI Dual >> ethernet board. > > Why not use serial ports over USB? That m

Re: [Soekris] Two PCI peripherals on one unit?

2008-08-22 Thread Maurice Janssen
On Friday, August 22, 2008 at 10:55:37 +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: >I'm looking into a project that appears to require two PCI cards >operating at the same time: one 4 port serial PCI card and one PCI Dual >ethernet board. Why not use serial ports over USB? Maurice _

[Soekris] Two PCI peripherals on one unit?

2008-08-22 Thread Lars Noodén
I'm looking into a project that appears to require two PCI cards operating at the same time: one 4 port serial PCI card and one PCI Dual ethernet board. The idea is to have 1 serial port available for each ethernet port and then have one or two left over for other tasks. Is there Soekris hardware