From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Oct 15 18:27:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D6FA37B401 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 18:27:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from view.scoundrelz.net (osh202-181.broadacre.com [66.54.202.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BABB43E75 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 18:27:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hemi@scoundrelz.net) Received: from view.scoundrelz.net (localhost.scoundrelz.net [127.0.0.1]) by view.scoundrelz.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g9G1RJLL065288; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 20:27:19 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from hemi@scoundrelz.net) Received: from localhost (hemi@localhost) by view.scoundrelz.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g9G1RI0G065285; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 20:27:19 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: view.scoundrelz.net: hemi owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 20:27:18 -0500 (CDT) From: Josh Tolbert To: Wilko Bulte Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: PC164 SRM firmware problem In-Reply-To: <20021015193625.B32974@freebie.xs4all.nl> Message-ID: <20021015202603.A62793-100000@view.scoundrelz.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi Wilko, No luck with the firmware. Thanks for sending it to me, though. As far as the serial connection goes, I'm trying to use a ThinkPad 600 for the client and apparently people have been having problems with the serial ports on these laptops. :( Thanks, Josh On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:58:10AM -0500, Josh Tolbert wrote: > > > Attached is the oldish SRM for the PC164 I promised to send. > > > > Hi Bernd, > > I haven't successfully made a serial connection to the Alpha. I'm > > going to continue working with the Alpha tonight, and now I have the > > settings that Wilko provided, but I'm not familiar with serial consoles at > > all. I guess I'm going to use Kermit, but I'm not sure if I need to make > > Kermit "listen" or "connect" or other things of the sort. > > > > Thanks, > > Josh > > > > On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Bernd Walter wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:33:02AM -0500, Josh Tolbert wrote: > > > > Hi Bernd, > > > > Yes, I've seen these boards running SRM firmware before. > > > > Unfortunately, knowing that some of them do run SRM firmware doesn't do me > > > > any good. No one can explain why the machine refuses to work with the SRM > > > > firmware or provide any sort of workaround. :( > > > > > > It was more to stop guessing which version is good. > > > > > > > Since the ARC firmware works again, is there any information I > > > > should be looking for? > > > > > > It worked exactly the way you originaly described. > > > Did you test the seriel interfaces as others suggested? > > > > > > -- > > > B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de > > > ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de > > > > > > > ---end of quoted text--- > > -- > | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org > |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message