From owner-freebsd-sparc Wed Mar 20 13:55:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from k6.locore.ca (k6.locore.ca [198.96.117.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91EFB37B404 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 13:55:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jake@localhost) by k6.locore.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2KM3sp98829; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 17:03:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jake) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 17:03:54 -0500 From: Jake Burkholder To: William Lloyd Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ultra1 200E Message-ID: <20020320170353.H90182@locore.ca> References: <20020318224856.D21940@tolstoy.mpd.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020318224856.D21940@tolstoy.mpd.ca>; from wlloyd@tolstoy.mpd.ca on Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 10:48:56PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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