Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 09:36:27 +1000 From: Phil Homewood <philh@mincom.com> To: Konstantin Orekhov <techkins@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cyclades and MAKEDEV Message-ID: <20000414093627.H26540@mincom.com> In-Reply-To: <20000413163412.27583.qmail@web4303.mail.yahoo.com>; from Konstantin Orekhov on Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 09:34:12AM -0700 References: <20000413163412.27583.qmail@web4303.mail.yahoo.com>
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Konstantin Orekhov wrote: > # cd /dev > # ./MAKEDEV ttyc0 > # ls -l ttyc* > crw------- 1 root wheel 48, 0 Apr 11 16:19 > ttyc00 > crw------- 1 root wheel 48, 1 Apr 11 16:19 > ttyc01 > [snip] > crw------- 1 root wheel 48, 31 Apr 11 16:19 > ttyc0v > # ls -l ttyc* | wc -l > 32 > > This is not what I expected - I thought I should have > something like ttyc0 - ttyc15. > > Also, if I try to create cuac* devices, I get the same > unexpected device names - cuac00...cuac0v. Cyclom cards can handle 32 ports. "ttyc0" caters for this. The 32 ports are named c00 through c0f for the first 16, and c0g through c0v for the next 16. ttyc1* are for the second cyclades card, if installed. On a related note, we've been trying to get a Cyclom "Series II" (I think, never actually physically seen the box) to work under 2.2.8. The cy driver in 2.2.8 fails to work with this box. Cyclades have an updated driver on their site, but it doesn't fare much better - any SLIP/PPP connections on *any* cyclades device (there's what would probably be called a "Series I" card with 32 ports on it in there already) in the machine fail after 1-10 minutes. With the stock driver, the old cyclades box works, but the new one cannot communicate with the modems attached to it. Looking at the Cyclades support site, they have updated drivers for up to 3.0, after which the site seems to imply that the patches were to make it back into the base distribution during 3.x. I grabbed the 3.0 driver and compared it with my 3.4-STABLE box, and it's evident that the changes never made it back to FreeBSD. Is anyone actively maintaining this driver now? Is anyone successfully using a Series II box under any version of FreeBSD (using the ISA "Y" card)? -- This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential information. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete it and notify the sender. The contents of this email are the opinion of the writer and are not endorsed by Mincom Ltd unless expressly stated otherwise. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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