Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 16:27:11 -0500 From: keyser@clio.rice.edu (Kevin Keyser) To: questions@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <9610222127.AA12591@clio.rice.edu>
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FreeBSD folks,
I installed FreeBSD 2.1.0 early this year and have been very
happy with it. It installed cleanly and appears quite stable
and fast. I have scanned much, but certainly not all, of the
various documentation available: FAQs, newsgroups, Greg Lehey's
"The Complete FreeBSD", man pages, etc. There are, however, a
couple of key problems that I have not been able to work out.
First, the hardware:
60MHz Intel Pentium (WITHOUT the floating point bug)
AMI Excalibur (EISA/PCI) Motherboard
32MB core memory (4 8MB SIMMS)
Adaptec 2742T Twin channel Fast SCSI 2 adapter on EISA bus
Seagate ST3655N 520MB Fast SCSI 2 disk (as sd0) on 1st SCSI channel
Seagate ST32550N 2047MB Fast SCSI 2 disk (as sd1) on 2nd SCSI channel
ATI Graphics Ultra Pro Mach32 video card on PCI bus
Toshiba XM-3701TA external 6X CDROM drive (cd0) on 1st SCSI channel
Floppy drives (3.5" and 5.25" as fd0 and fd1 respectively)
MS bus mouse and adapter board
OS/2 Warp is installed in the first ~470MB of sd0 (HPFS filesystem)
with the rest as FreeBSD swap space (sd0s3b). The first slice of
sd1 is ~1024MB and is where FreeBSD lives. The balance of sd1 is
not in use at this time. Right now I use the OS/2 boot manager to
choose between OSes at boot time (I am aware that FreeBSD also
provides a boot manager and I have no particular reason for not
using it).
The problems I have are:
1) I have a DEC VT220 terminal that I would like to use on sio0.
It is connected with a null modem cable. I changed the
ttyd0 line in /etc/ttys to read:
ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt220 on secure
then did a "kill -1 1". Getty is running after this (according
to "ps -ax"), but nothing appears on the terminal except the
cursor. sio0 is recognized at boot time ("sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff
irq 4 on isa") and I am able to dial out through it if I connect
a modem.
A) Is there anything else I need to configure in FreeBSD to
make it see this terminal? Such as setting flags on the
"device" line in the kernel config file to indicate a soft
carrier?
B) What values need to be specified in the "Set Up" menus on
the VT220 terminal itself? For instance, number of data
and stop bits, VT200 mode (7 or 8 bit controls),
XOFF (at 64 or 128), etc.
2) I have a modem connected on sio1 and am having limited success
with dialing out through it. As root, I can dial out and
connect fine, but...
A) How do I configure tip so that regular users can use it
to dial out. Right now, when I invoke tip as a regular
user, I get the messages:
lock open: No such file or directory
all ports busy
B) How do I perform zmodem file transfers when dialed out
through tip? I have source for sz and rz but I am not
familiar enough to know how to make them cooperate
with tip.
Thanks for your time. I appreciate any help you can give me.
Kevin Keyser
keyser@clio.rice.edu
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