From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 21 06:48:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA17260 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 06:33:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from albert.osu.cz (albert.osu.cz [195.113.106.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA17222 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 06:33:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from belkovic@albert.osu.cz) Received: from localhost (belkovic@localhost) by albert.osu.cz (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA02335; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 13:41:02 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 13:41:02 +0200 (MET DST) From: Josef Belkovics To: Andrew Kenneth Milton cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with Cyclades Cyclom-8YeP on 2.2.7 and 3.0-RELEASE In-Reply-To: <199810211114.VAA23748@zeus.theinternet.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > | > 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. > > Yes this is true. If the ports are not physically connected to the > card via the cable, the card does not appear. I agree. > | > 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? > > It refers to the revision of the Cirrus Logic Chip that controls > each group of four ports. There are two main version. On the serial > pod you will see either SM 16 or SM 16 II. MkII refers to the pods > that have the SM16 II marking. > > Apart from the problems with the old and new pods together I've > had no problems with the ISA versions of these cards. I don't see > that the PCI driver is all that different from the ISA version. > > At least you don't have to manipulate dip switches on the PCI version. As I see, better is don't manipulate with the PCI version at all. Thanks. Josef Belkovics To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message