Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:44:20 +0000 From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@incunabulum.net> To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Cc: nsouch@freebsd.org, FreeBSD stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: lpbb broken in 6.x? Message-ID: <47E8F3A4.50807@incunabulum.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1080325152322.21551B-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au>
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Ian Smith wrote: > To finish off completely hijacking your thread :) does anyone know of > anything that can run a master/slave interface like pcf(4) which appears > to have been an ISA bus only device? I don't have C skills to write > one, though 400kHz master and slave routines in AVR asm were fun :) > > Later: after nearly losing this in a pine crash (don't ask), I've since > seen John's reply to your later message. Could it be that smbus or > something is also using iicbus rather than something messing with ppbus? > Thanks for the hints. I don't have smbus in the kernel, nor do I have any other i2c device drivers loaded in the system. I stopped using smbus when it became pretty clear that it wasn't doing anything useful for me (it could never see CPU fan readouts or anything like that when I tried it on 3 different PIII era systems). I agree a pcf(4) style interface would go some way towards solving the problem, however, solder plus 74LS05 costs next to nothing, plus the "leet value" of having a circuit schematic in the man page had to be tried out. I think we're losing out there if it's not working, though. PS OpenBSD look like they took NetBSD's i2c and ran with it... cheers BMShome | help
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