Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 18:35:27 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Paul <wpaul> To: chemtechweb@psn.net Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PS/2 ports on a Dell Dimension XPS R450 Message-ID: <199902050235.SAA07876@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <36BA4F06.F60C407@psn.net> from Emmanuel Gravel at "Feb 4, 99 06:53:10 pm"
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> Bill Paul wrote: > > > > > I just got this machine, never had a problem installing and finding > > > the PS/2 port on other computers, but for some reason, this one > > > doesn't find it. I'm still pretty much a newbie at this. I have > > > FreeBSD 2.2.7 release CD's from last October. > > > > It would help if you had a newer release. I don't know exactly what > > the problem is here. > > I'll try to get the machine online and CVSup 2.2.8. Can you tell me > what these messages mean, though? (from my last EMail): > > psm0: current command byte:0047 > kbdio: TEST_AUX_PORT status:00fa > kbdio: DIAGNOSE status:0055 > kbdio: TEST_KBD_PORT status:00fa > psm: keyboard port failed > psm0: the aux port is not functioning (250). > psm0 not found at 0x60 > > Apart from the obvious, of course... Do the status codes indicate > anything useful? I've called Dell to figure out if they had done > anything wierd with the setup of their PS/2 ports on this model of > computer, but the support staff on phone didn't have a clue. I'm > still waiting for an EMail from their online support staff. > > BTW, I've just been told by a SCO guru that there may be problems > on systems that have both PS/2 ports and USB ports (which this system > has). That might help to identify how to solve this problem. Any > ideas? Hm... not really. All the Dell machines I've used never gave me any grief like this. What I would try, just as an experiment, is to download a copy of the FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE boot floppy and just boot the kernel to see if it spews out the same errors. Two people who might be able to help you with this are yokota@freebsd.org and sos@freebsd.org, who I know have both done a lot of work on the console and mouse drivers. Sorry, but I really don't know what the error codes mean. > > The LinkSys LNE100TX _is_ supported, just not by the release of > > FreeBSD that you have. You need the pn driver. You can download the > > driver from http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/PNIC but you have to compile > > a new kernel image to use it. The alternative is to wait until the > > next 3.x release comes out, which should be fairly soon. > > Thanks for the info! I'll get the driver and recompile the kernel. > This is DEFINITELY good news (stops me from having to do another 45 > minute ride to get to Fry's :) A couple of words of warning. First, make sure you get the driver from the 2.2 subdirectory. Second, if you download with netscape or Internet Exploder, you might end up with ^M's in the file, which will confuse the compiler and cause the kernel build to bomb. If you have no choise but to use these monstrosities (fetch or lynx will both work correctly) then you can strip the ^M's like this: % tr -d '\r' < file.orig > file.new Aside from that, just follow the instructions at http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/PNIC/README and you should be okay. > As for the rest of the info, thanks a lot! It helps me to know what > I have and how it compares. That's all I really need, an average > 10/100 card that's fairly inexpensive. This isn't going to be a > production server anyway, just a workstation... In my experience, the PNIC usually does about 80 megabits per second on transmit in 100Mbps full-duplex mode. I was able to get the ASIX chip to do 90 megabits in 100Mbps/full-duplex mode. (Mind you, this is TCP transfer speed, so you have to take into account things like ethernet and IP header overhead when looking at the numbers.) The ASIX cards are also fairly inexpensive, although the PNIC seems to be more plentiful, especially since LinkSys and Kingston are selling them. You can find LinkSys cards at places like Staples, so they're more likely to end up in the hands of 'average consumers.' Given a choice I would do the extra legwork to find an ASIX card largely because my primary concern is finding decent programming information and ASIX Electronics has the datasheet for their chip right on their web server (www.asix.com.tw). -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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