From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 30 13:26:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA24256 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 13:26:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA24165; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 13:26:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA27845; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 07:56:22 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id HAA14040; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 07:56:21 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980131075621.30504@lemis.com> Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 07:56:21 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, hosokawa@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Serial ports (was: A truly losing laptop for FreeBSD) References: <19622.886160352@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <19622.886160352@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Fri, Jan 30, 1998 at 03:39:12AM -0800 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" On Fri, Jan 30, 1998 at 03:39:12AM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > http://www.toshiba.com/tais/csd/products/portable/tecra/featured/index.htm > > And it's sort of sad because this is the kind of *high end* laptop > you'd like to see more FreeBSD users using. Unfortunately, according > to one BETA tester, he can't even get FreeBSD to recognise the serial > ports on the thing much less the more complex peripherals. We've just been discussing serial ports. There are a number of newer motherboards on which the serial ports aren't recognized. It would be interesting to see which probes fail, and what IO chip is in the beast. Greg