Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 12:47:28 +0200 (MET DST) From: Josef Belkovics <belkovic@albert.osu.cz> To: Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@zeus.theinternet.com.au> Cc: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>, mboers@datacompusa.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with Cyclades Cyclom-8YeP on 2.2.7 and 3.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.981021112829.1314A-100000@albert.osu.cz> In-Reply-To: <199810202341.JAA07346@zeus.theinternet.com.au>
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> | > I have previously submitted this question to freebsd-questions and > | > freebsd-hardware with no response. I hope some kind soul on this may be > | > able to help me. > | > | re: Card found, but no ports found... > | > | Hi, this is a complete 'shot-in-the-dark', but our Z series Cyclades card > | does exactly this if we have the card plugged in, but not the actual > | ports... I don't know if the Y series works like this (i.e. PCI card + > | cable to connect a seperate box to the PCI card)... > > The (ISA) 16Ye's are almost the same. If there are no ports connected, > you don't find the card at all. The 16Ye's have a SCSI-2 cable to a > bunch of ports. I have 2.2.7 FreeBSD Release, driver from ftp.cyclades.com, Cyclom-Ye/ISA card and one SM Cyclom-8Ye/DB25. Card is found indenpendently of it, if modem(s) is(are) on or off. If is true, that Cyclom-Ye/ISA with SM Cyclom-16Ye/???? or Cyclom-Ye/PCI with anything isn't find, then: 1) Check your rs-232 pinouts on both ends of cable (there is no standard for 232 signals using rj-type connector etc.) 2) Try system which is supported by manufacturer (windows nt, linux, ...). I feel, that atmosphere around the Cyclom-Ye/??? and their SM is strange. I follow the situation around cyclom under FreeBSD 3 years, but so far I don't know, if driver is good or not. Probably hundreds systems runs 4 x Cyclom-Ye/PCI + 8 x SM Cyclom-16Ye/RJ45 + 1/2 ISPorte (compaq microcom 4000), but their owners lost kind soul. If anyone is using Cyclom-Ye/PCI, please be heard. (You will save money of my university - i plan to purchase Cyclom-Ye/PCI and two SM Cyclom-16Ye/RJ45.) > I don't know about the PCI ones, and I don't know about the 8-way > octopus cable ones. > > The new cyclades driver is required for the SM MkII pods, not for > the card AFAIK. There also seems to be weirdness if you have an old > serial pod, and a new serial pod on the same card. What means MkII? What means AFAIK? Josef Belkovics To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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