Mini ITX / Serial Ports

["Ali Watkins" <ukha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chaps!
(Congrats on a successful UKHA2004, the web cams were enjoyable at
times!)

I've had an mini-ITX board for a while running Gentoo Linux offering
Apache, xAP and x10 for the home network, but I've got a swipe card
reader and a serial IR emitter I'd like to connect up to the box, which
nestles snuggle under the sofa in my lounge connecting to the network
over WiFi.

Does anyone have experience with the ITX riser card that would allow me
to add 2 extra serial ports, as well as having a port free for video
capture? Does anyone know how easy it is to get one of these serial
expansion boards running under Linux? Or maybe I'm missing an obvious
better way of doing it?  The card I've seen also come with an extra
parallel port which I thought I could use to connect some switches and
buttons to the box too.

I saw someone posted such a PCI RS232 on special the other day, did
anyone buy one who runs linux?


Thanks advance for your help.

Alistair





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