Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 14:04:24 +0200 (MET DST) From: Christian Kratzer <ck@toplink.net> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Going gaga over Cyclades board Message-ID: <199604251204.OAA01652@toplink1.toplink.net> In-Reply-To: <199604250446.OAA06594@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Apr 25, 96 02:46:19 pm
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Hi > >we've been trying to wire up a cyclades 1400 based pccom 8 /port serial > >adapter under FreeBSD 2.1r. > > Which model number exactly? Old 8Yo boards have problems on some PCI > systems (the BIOS messes up their registers; Cyclades has hardware fixes > for this in newer models). Some (all?) PCI boards are not supported by > FreeBSD (the registers are mapped in a different way...). It's not a genuine cyclom board. The board is an ISA 8 port (2 x CD1400, DB25 connectors) from a manufacturer called PCCom. The PC in question has an asus pentium/tri motherboard. Do you think I should try sticking the serial card into a plain ISA Mainboard ? > > >The problem is that using 'kermit -l /dev/cuac0' just hangs. No echo > >no nothing. Trying to exit kermit will leave it hanging around forever. > > This may be a configuration problem. Try using `cu -l /dev/cuac0'. Use > `pstat -t' to look at the state of serial ports. Thanks for the tip. This is what pstat gets when I cu to the ports cuac0 has a modem connected to it cuac1 does not (dangling cable). I have had the card at irq 12 and irq 15 and at d8000,da000,dc000 all with the same effect. Characters end up in the output queue but don't get sent out. 16 cy lines LINE RAW CAN OUT HWT LWT COL STATE SESS PGID DISC cuac0 0 0 14 1296 256 16 OCcB 0 0 term cuac1 0 0 7 1296 256 9 OCcB 0 0 term ttyc2 0 0 0 1296 256 0 l 0 0 term ttyc3 0 0 0 1296 256 0 l 0 0 term ttyc4 0 0 0 1296 256 0 l 0 0 term ttyc5 0 0 0 1296 256 0 l 0 0 term ttyc6 0 0 0 1296 256 0 l 0 0 term ttyc7 0 0 0 1296 256 0 l 0 0 term I have tried turning on and off the Polling mode in /usr/src/sys/i386/isa/cy.c with no difference. I am beginng to suspect that this card needs some special wiring on the cable. Greetings and thanks for the tips (didn't know about pstat before ;-) ) Christian -- TopLink GbR, Internet Services info@toplink.net Christian Kratzer http://www.toplink.net/ Phone: +49 7452 87174 Fax: +49 7452 87175 FreeBSD spoken here!
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