[plug] 4 Port serial cards, mgetty etc etc

[Brad Campbell]

Brad Campbell wrote:
> 
> Michael Hunt wrote:
> 
> > So what use did you put a 4 port pcmcia serial card to. I did not now that
> > even such a thing existed !!!
> >
> > Michael Hunt
> 
> Yeah, 4 port Quatech card. I just grepped the pcmcia sources for a 4 port card
> that was supported, and contacted the manufacturer to get one. Sold by Industrial
> Computer Source in Melb.
> Plugged it in and bingo, had ttyS16..ttyS19 automaticly.
> And the system will support 2 of them, so you could have 8 ports on a laptop..
> Convinent.. no ?

Sorry, just realised I did not answer the question..
I'm doing some development work on an Comms server for a security system, that
needs to talk to about 6 devices at once, thus the need for LOTS of com ports
on my laptop. I can't be stuffed lugging a pc around to do development/testing.

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Brad....
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