🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:28:41 +1000, 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.
>

I used a Sbus serial card from Performance Technologies [www.pt.com] a few
years ago in a Sparc 5 running Solaris 9. It had no problems that I saw,
it had the big 8 port cable hanging off the back, not as slick as the
RJ-45 ports on the Magma but it did work so I thought I'd mention it.

-Mike