Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 23:25:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Dave Hodge <dlhodge@ix.netcom.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need help with several problem discovered in the New release 2.2.2 FreeBSD. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970905232256.7701G-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <34108B3E.3D5D@ix.netcom.com>
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On Fri, 5 Sep 1997, Dave Hodge wrote: > The first and most important problem has to do with the inability of > FreeBSD to recognize my serial port, sio1. I find this extremely odd and > frustrating because prior to upgrading to Version 2.2.2 I had Version > 2.1.5 install and running without incident. When I execute the “dmesg” > command the information returns the message: “sio1: 0x2f8 not found.” > Next I performed a shutdown of my system and rebooted using the “boot > -c” command when appropriate. I was hoping to detect some type of > conflict, but none existed. Finally I tried to echo to the device with > the following command: “echo atdt(my number) > /dev/cuaa1”, to which I > received this message in reply to my action: “/dev/cuaa1: Device Not > Configured.” Do you have any ideas what could be going wrong. Please > note that everything works perfectly in Win95. No problems in > recognizing the modem at all. (Fyi I’m not confused on what modem number > I’m accessing either.) What type of port or modem is this? Some cheap modems doesn't respond properly and there is probably some sort of timing issue with this release. > The second problem that I have experience has to do with the > distribution disk of Version 2.2.2 for FreeBSD. I was hoping to correct > a problem to what looks to be a majorily hosed “rc.conf” file. This > configuration file is one half megabyte in size. A little large wouldn’t > you say. When I tried to more the file I recognized that is was very > messed up in it’s format This is a known bug. Either skip the post-install configuration or grab a new boot floppy from releng22.freebsd.org and install a snapshot of 2.2-STABLE (bugfixed 2.2.2). > Finally, I’ve been trying to find out if there is anyway via FreeBSD for > floppies to support anything other than the 8.3 convention for file > names. I really need the “/dev/fd0” to support long file names. Long > time ago I remember that one could select various file system formats > for their floppy drives. Is there anything that you can think of to help > me. If you format the floppies to UFS format it'll work, but Win95 long filenames aren't supported. See /etc/disktab for floppy formatting instructions. (Note: see http://resnet.uoregon.edu/dwhite/makedisk.html for hard disks & removables.) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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