Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:35:14 +0200 From: akela@terminal.cz To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: missing serial devices on NetraX1 Message-ID: <873cif4got.fsf@akela.ti.cz> References: <873cihug45.fsf@akela.ti.cz> <20030611093114.GD39701@funkthat.com>
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John-Mark> Honza Dusak wrote this message on Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 11:18 +0200: >> Yesterday I installed FreeBSD-5.1BETA on NetraX1 and I wanted >> to use the serial B port as a network interface ( slattach ) . >> But I cannot find any notice about serial drivers in the dmesg >> output and neither there is no ttyb ( or cuaa* ) device at >> /dev directory . >> >> Please, can anybody advise what can be missing ? John-Mark> I think you have a similar box to mine, which uses an ALi John-Mark> south bridge for serial. John-Mark> The problem is that you can't have both serial (sio) ports John-Mark> running at the same time otherwise you might lock up your John-Mark> box. John-Mark> Try adding: John-Mark> hint.sio.1.at="isa" John-Mark> hint.sio.1.port="0x2E8" John-Mark> hint.sio.1.irq="4" thank you, this did the trick . I have also noticed the sio driver is commented at GENERIC on the sparc-64 archicture . -- Honza Dusak
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