From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat May 9 18:27:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA26412 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Sat, 9 May 1998 18:27:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA26407 for ; Sat, 9 May 1998 18:27:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id KAA02533; Sun, 10 May 1998 10:57:33 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980510105733.C12200@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 10:57:33 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Bruce Evans , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, gavin@itworks.com.au Subject: Re: Serial port problems References: <199805091115.VAA30393@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199805091115.VAA30393@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on Sat, May 09, 1998 at 09:15:56PM +1000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 9 May 1998 at 21:15:56 +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: >> I've just acquired 2 servers to run 2.2.6-RELEASE on. They are both using >> Iwill P55XUB motherboards. The book that came with the motherboard says >> that the onboard serial ports are NS16C550 compatible. > > It apparently misspells `incompatible' :-). There have been several > reports that serial ports on Iwills don't work under FreeBSD. This appears to be traceable to a specific Acer UART. Yuri Krichevsky has done a quick hack to fix it, and it works well (I'm using an Iwill board as well). Pick up the patches at http://www.lemis.com/serial-port-patch.html >> kernel panic as soon as is probes for the serial ports. The last message >> before the cu session closed is >> Probing for devices ocu: Got hangup signal This is different from what I've seen, however, but I'm not running 2.2.6. I wonder if this is the result of booting with a serial console. Anyway, grab the patch and tell me (and Yuri) if that helps. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message