From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 22 19:12:18 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E680316A41F for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 19:12:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mv.twc.weather.com (mv.twc.weather.com [65.212.71.225]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 125D143D49 for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 19:12:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [10.50.40.201] (Not Verified[10.50.40.201]) by mv.twc.weather.com with NetIQ MailMarshal (v6, 0, 3, 8) id ; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 15:27:23 -0400 From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:15:03 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <43066161.2050906@ccstores.com> In-Reply-To: <43066161.2050906@ccstores.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508221415.04332.jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Jim Pazarena Subject: Re: comtrol rocketport 16 PCI X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 19:12:19 -0000 On Friday 19 August 2005 06:46 pm, Jim Pazarena wrote: > the 5.4 kernel appears to support rocketport simply by including > "device rp" in the kernel compile, after which devices like: > > /dev/ttyR[0-9a-f] > /dev/ttyiR[0-9a-f] > /dev/ttylR[0-9a-f] > /dev/cuaR[0-9a-f] > /dev/cuaiR[0-9a-f] > /dev/cualR[0-9a-f] > > get created. The init and locked variants you probably don't need to worry about. They are just like cuai* and cual* for regular cuaa* devices for sio(4). > would someone please advise the purpose of the "iR" & "lR" devices? > > also, comtrol has some kind of support for the 5 kernel on their > ftp site; with a few instructions on how to remove some existing > files, add some of theirs, and re-compile the kernel. > their instructions suggest that ports are: /dev/ttyC* and /dev/cuaC* > > when following _their_ instructions, a fresh kernel compile crashes. > I see someone posted a question WRT the compile crash back in 1/24/05. > there were no responses. > > I would like to confirm that the existing FreeBSD settings for rocketport > support do indeed work, and that it isn't necessary to go thru comtrol's > compilation routine. I use the existing driver just fine on 5, 6, and 7 with an 8-port rp(4) card. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org