From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed May 10 4:29:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from hermes.research.kpn.com (hermes.research.kpn.com [139.63.192.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C61AA37B58D for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 04:29:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from K.J.Koster@kpn.com) Received: from l04.research.kpn.com (l04.research.kpn.com [139.63.192.204]) by research.kpn.com (PMDF V5.2-31 #42699) with ESMTP id <01JP8J1PRENE00014Y@research.kpn.com> for freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org; Wed, 10 May 2000 13:29:36 +0200 Received: by l04.research.kpn.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Wed, 10 May 2000 13:29:35 +0100 Content-return: allowed Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 13:29:34 +0100 From: "Koster, K.J." Subject: sio, nrc and sym questions for NoName To: 'FreeBSD Alpha mailing list' Message-id: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D74C9@l04.research.kpn.com> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dear Alpha, First off: my NoName board works! FreeBSD installed flawlessly. The sysinstall background is red, but it is my understanding that that's a feature. It won't have a monitor anyway, so don't rush out to fix this for me. :-) Good work, everyone! It seems that the onboard NCR 810 is not recognized by the sym driver. I had to use the ncr driver for it. Wilko, perhaps this might be useful to mention in HARDWARE.TXT. I tried building a kernel without any of the sio things, but it failed to link, saying it was missing "comconsole" and "sionattach" IIRC. I never knew that serial ports were an integral and mandatory part of FreeBSD. :) Is this a bug^H^H^Hfeature? If so, HARDWARE.TXT might want to mention this too. I'll file a PR if you think it should have linked fine without sio. I noticed that ed0 is not in the generic kernel. Will my old isa NE1000 work in that box, or should I (finally) buy some other NIC? Kees Jan ============================================== You are only young once, but you can stay immature all your life To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message