Re: 8-port PCI Serial card + ppp/terminal help

[Hugo Villeneuve <hugo_villeneuve@yahoo.com>]

On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 09:06:29AM +0000, Chris.Smith@raytheon.co.uk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Can anyone recommend an 8-port PCI (x86 crap) serial card
> which will work very well with OpenBSD.  It has to

See the supported hardware list. There isn't that many serial card
supported anyway (there's two).

http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html in the Serial section

> Also, does anyone know how to make a port either a terminal
> *or* PPP connection (switchable somehow from the connecting
> client).  Terminals are relatively new to me unfortunately :(

Read man ppp, if you want to use getty, you'll need modems that supports
stored profiles. People use mgetty usually (in the ports, maybe mark as
broken), it's especialy made for runing terminals/PPP on a modem.

Hugo Villeneuve