Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266758AbUJREbF (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Oct 2004 00:31:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266802AbUJREbF (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Oct 2004 00:31:05 -0400 Received: from mailgate1.sover.net ([209.198.87.60]:58583 "EHLO mx1.sover.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266758AbUJREbB (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Oct 2004 00:31:01 -0400 Message-ID: <41734721.3070508@sover.net> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 00:31:29 -0400 From: Stephen Wille Padnos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gene.heskett@verizon.net CC: linux-kernel Subject: Re: I/O card vs linux References: <200410160423.43597.gene.heskett@verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <200410160423.43597.gene.heskett@verizon.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1496 Lines: 36 Gene Heskett wrote: >Greetings; > >This may be OT, but can anyone advise me on a pci card thats basicly >an 8255 with a 34 pin or greater port on the card or back panel to >bring out all 3 ports, and a suitable linux compatible driver for it? > 3 possibilities: (there are more, including some with industrial protection, isolation, etc.) www.computerboards.com : PCI-DIO24 and PCI-DIO24H, $89. These are basically a single 8255 connected to the bus through a PCI glue chip. They don't seem to provide a driver, but I would think the board would be set up automatically by the PCI code, and then there are just the standard 4 ports to read/write (you just have to find the base address theough the PCI subsystem). www.ni.com : NI-PCI-6503, $145. This is a 24 I/O board, but has added logic (like a programmable power-on I/O state). There don't seem to be Linux drivers, but they may exist if you ask tech support. (NI is fairly Linux-friendly - they made a LabView/Linux version). www.byterunner.com : PCI-1284-P2, $39.95. This is a dual IEEE1284 PCI parallel port card, with Linux drivers. It's not quite what you're looking for, but it will give you 24 I/O's (16 bidir, 10 dedicated, 2 interrupts). Hope this helps - Steve - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/