How do Digi-Boards work?

Factual Questions
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I have a need to hook-up about 10 serial port connections to a single PC. It seems that this company - http://www.digi.com/products/multiportserialcards/ - makes a product that fits my needs. I’m baffled, though, as to how this works. Say I buy the “Classicboard”, do the additional serial ports just become “com” devices in windows? How about linux, just more /dev/ttyS devices?

Thanks.

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I am fairly certain that is how they work. I believe you just go into the device manager>ports* and configure them there. l don’t have to deal with them often, I just fix the interfaces that use them, if there is a conection issue it’s not my problem. One of the women I work with is a Digi guru. I’ll ask her about it but it won’t be untill Thursday.

Slee

*I HATE AIX with a passion.

3

I’ve used them before. It’s almost impossible to find ones that have real UARTs on them these days, so you have to make sure you get the drivers right (easy enough on windows, never tried it on linux). Once the drivers are installed, they look like regular old com ports.

The Lava Quattro board is the only one I’m aware of that is still available that uses good old fashioned hardware UARTs. This gets around the driver issue if drivers aren’t available for the particular board and OS you are using.

Don’t forget to buy the “octopus cable” that is specific to whatever board you buy. This will convert the big D connector on the baord with bizillions of pins into a bunch of individual standard serial 9 pin D connectors.

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Thanks guys.