Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 17:03:54 -0500 From: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca> To: William Lloyd <wlloyd@tolstoy.mpd.ca> Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ultra1 200E Message-ID: <20020320170353.H90182@locore.ca> In-Reply-To: <20020318224856.D21940@tolstoy.mpd.ca>; from wlloyd@tolstoy.mpd.ca on Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 10:48:56PM -0500 References: <20020318224856.D21940@tolstoy.mpd.ca>
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Apparently, On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 10:48:56PM -0500, William Lloyd said words to the effect of; > I just booted my Ultra1 200E with the latest kernel and userland. > > I'm totally impressed. Other than a bit of fooling around it worked no > problem. > > I'm using the console as there is no serial driver and disk is NFS as > there is no SCSI support. > > There is a little weirdness with the console that when I'm typing if I > type at a regular speed characters get lost. If I type 1 char ever 1/2 > second or so there is no problem. Apprears to be related to key repeating, > that doesn't seem to work either. Hold any key down and it only shows > once. > > If anyone would like access to the machine or would like me to test anything > I'm more than willing. I wish I could contribute in a more meaningfull > way but my knowledge of all things kernel is 0. > > Here is a cut and paste from dmesg Cool! The serial console actually will work, we use the openfirmware console support so anything that gets you an ok prompt will work for a console, its just not that great. Ths hardware doc is ambiguous in this regard. Configuring a network card and logging in remotley is much more usable. Thanks, Jake To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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