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Craig Ian Dewick wrote:
> 
> With Mobility Electronics complete stupidity and ineptitude to even 
> reply to my customer support requests in recent months, and the 
> continuing failure of their Solaris 9 Sbus card device driver to work, 
> I've basically had enough of their software not working and have all but 
> dumped any possibility of getting modems to work with the dial-up server 
> machine again. Since changing from a PCI-based to an Sbus-based Sun 
> machine there have been no end of problems trying to get modems and 
> serial devices to work again, even though the setup is the same and 
> apart from device driver and base hardware platform differences nothing 
> else has altered from a config point of view.
> 
> Is anyone aware of a maker of Sbus serial port cards which still has 
> current operating system support? I am aware that Sun dumped Sbus 
> support when they released Solaris 10 so whatever is left over in 
> Solaris 9 is probably as good as it gets.
> 
> Failing being able to use a Sun Sbus card to add serial ports, the other 
> option is completely rebuilding the machine with an alternative 
> operating system such as NetBSD which does apparently support the Magma 
> Sbus cards natively.
> 
> The only other possible solution which is going to be doable at little 
> cost is to get something like a Cisco 2509/2511 or a Lucent Portmaster 
> 2, and use that to manage modems indirectly to the server machine. 
> That's something I would have done in the past when I had more than a 
> handful of modems running full-time with active dial-up connections, but 
> now there is only two modems.
> 
> If you can think of a solution let me know!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Craig.
> 
> PS. Also posted at "http://www.sunshack.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=62"

Most Sun have two serial ports. If you only have two modems ..

Could you use a couple of machines if you need more? SPARC 20's are as 
cheap as chips now.

Are there no PCI cards that will do this and swap the machine for  a PCI 
one?

Just a few thoughts...


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