Re: [hylafax-users] PCI or PCIe DB-25 serial cards?

[Jim Nikelski <jnikelski@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dago,

   That sounds like a fascinating option. Have you tried this with
Linux, or has your experience been primarily with Windows? If it works
with Linux, are special drivers required?

  Just to make sure that I'm understanding you correctly, you're
suggesting that the modem's serial DB-9 plugs into a connector, which
converts the signal to ethernet, which then connects into a NIC card
in the computer, yes?  How does Linux see the new device? ttys?

-jim



On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Dagobert Michelsen
<dagobert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> Am 15.12.2010 um 05:47 schrieb Jim Nikelski:
>>   I'm looking for a recommendation. I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 and
>> trying to get the hardware ready for an uneventful Hylafax install. I
>> previously tried to install a USB modem, and ran into some driver
>> issues, so I decided to go with an external serial modem (seems to be
>> the safest option).  I'm currently looking at the MultiTech
>> MT5634ZBA-115V, which is external and supposed to be v34.fax capable
>> ... but it also requires a 25-pin DB-25 *serial* port.
>
> I know this is not exactly what you asked for, but I have made good
> experience with ethernet-to-serial terminal concentrators, e.g.
> from Digi or Perle or any other vendor. As they are connected by
> ethernet you can easily build cluster and/or failover configurations
> with it. On the plus-side they are independent of bus-types/slots.
> From the OS they just look like a normal serial device.
>
>
> Best regards
>
>  -- Dago



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Jim Nikelski, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Bloomfield Centre for Research in Aging
Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research
Sir Mortimer B. Davis - Jewish General Hospital
McGill University


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