From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 4 13:21:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA04326 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 13:21:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from toth.ferginc.com (toth.ferginc.com [205.139.23.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA04301 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 13:21:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost by toth.ferginc.com (You/Wish) with SMTP id QAA23657 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 16:20:27 -0400 (EDT) Posted-Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 16:20:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 16:20:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Branson Matheson X-Sender: branson@toth.hq.ferg.com Reply-To: Branson Matheson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Cyclades boards and Minor numbers Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am currently running stock 2.2.1 on a P120 with 32mb of ram. I have been using two cyclades boards with lots of sucess for some time now. This allows me to have all my large system consoles on a single box... and I can attach to them using watch -W. This is good and life is grand. However... ( and you could just hear it comming... ) Since I like this soo much... I wanted to add another board. This makes the third cy 8 port board. And lo and behold, the man page says rather cryptically: The naming scheme and the minor numbering scheme limit the number of ports to 32. Which... when put together with the number scheme used, gives me only two boards supported. This is because the driver assumes 32 port boards and restarts the minor number 32 positions up for the second board. I tried making a change to cyreg.h to lower that assumption to 16 ports.... but it didn't work. So what I am looking for is the possibility of making this machine support more than two boards. Is this possible? Reply directly please as this address is not on -questions. Thanks. - branson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Branson Matheson " If you are falling off of a mountain, System Administrator You may as well try to fly." Ferguson Enterprises - Delenn, Mimbari Ambassador