serial port expansion cards

[electron]

Comtrol is definitely one of the 'industrial quality' brands out there, I have deployed many of these. I believe there are already some linux drivers out there.

 

[gregoryx]

Agreed. Industrial-ish. Linux-ready. Traffic would be completely negligible on a 10Mb network; it's as good as non-existent on 100Mb or 1Gb. The L2 / MAC / ethernet implementation is theoretically faster and more efficient than the L3 / IP method. I've used both at times.

 

[az1324]

Oh yeah I guess there are linux drivers on their site. I think i got thrown off when you threw it under the etc category. I'll have to break this puppy out soon.

 

[jeffx]

my two additional ports (for Net Caller ID box and Diginet) should get me by for a while, but I am intrigued by the RocketPort.

 

[kyham]

I have tried a number of options but the easiest I have found that had NO PROBLEMS WITH ANY ATTACHED DEVICE was the Edgeport USB to Serial boxes.

I have 4 of them and they don't need additional power beyond the USB connection and once you get the latest driver from Digi, they work flawlessly.

I had the Digi 8 port add on PCI board but it finally gave out when I went to XP-PRO. The new drivers didn't help. Still have that and one of the 4 port PCI boards from Byterunner and could never get it to work.

As I remember, the Digi board was around $400 when I bought it. Still have it and the Byterunner 4 port boards just in case anyone has a need for them. Will make you a GREAT deal. Not doing any good just sitting in a box in the closet.

 

[deranged]

I have a 4 port usb to serial comtrol rocketport, and I have an 8 port byterunner card.

The rocketport has been in service for about 5 years and the byterunner about 2 years.

Both of them work extremely well and I have never had any problems.

StevenE