Subject: Re: Siig CyberSerial 4S on netbsd 2.0 ?
To: Peter Seebach <netbsd-help@NetBSD.org>
From: Brad du Plessis <bduplessis@commissionaires.ab.ca>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/13/2005 23:02:30
> Have you checked parity settings?  This feels like parity.

Parity is correct, I used exactly the same setup on the onboard serial port 
and it worked ok.

Has this card been known to work straight out of the box on NetBSD?

 Brad

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Seebach" <seebs@plethora.net>
To: <netbsd-help@NetBSD.org>
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:15 PM
Subject: Re: Siig CyberSerial 4S on netbsd 2.0 ?


> In message <02bb01c5704e$d00c3c70$6ea8a8c0@acervfr9okf50t>, "Brad du 
> Plessis" w
> rites:
>>I'm running netbsd 2.0 stable and have just purchased a Siig CyberSerial 
>>4S
>>com port expander as it was recommended on the Netbsd hardware 
>>compatibility
>>list. The card seems to be detected ok, but it doesn't seem to operate
>>correctly. I plugged in a modem and tested it with minicom, I got 
>>characters
>>echoing to the minicom terminal, but the modem was not responding to AT
>>commands.
>
> Have you checked parity settings?  This feels like parity.
>
> SIIG is simultaneously useless and helpful.  They insist that the card 
> doesn't
> work with anything but Windows, and they can't offer driver development
> support, but in fact, it works out of the box on Mac OS X.
>
> -s