Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 10:42:12 -0400 From: stan <stanb@panix.com> To: "J. Seth Henry" <jshamlet@comcast.net> Cc: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Help PLEASE! on proper kernel config file to use serial ports with puc driver Message-ID: <20030801144212.GC30259@teddy.fas.com> In-Reply-To: <1059716254.30080.4.camel@alexandria> References: <1059662053.28758.8.camel@alexandria> <20030731171848.GA4365@teddy.fas.com> <1059716254.30080.4.camel@alexandria>
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On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 01:37:35AM -0400, J. Seth Henry wrote: > Stan, > Could you describe your hardware in a bit more detail. I can't imagine > why your system would hard lock, unless there is something seriously > wrong. Also, I'm curious why puc is detecting your card as sio4 and sio5 > (COM5 and COM6 respectively) Most mainboards only have sio0/COM1 and > sio1/COM2. What is using sio2 and sio3? > > BTW - I would start from a generic kernel configuration if you don't > remember what you did. Then, make the necessary changes to the copy of > GENERIC, and go from there. Then, rebuild the kernel - it probably isn't > necessary, but it will at least return your kernel to something closer > to the baseline. > The card is a generic PCI card, it's labeled "Mercury" on the box, and has a Sun chip on it. I see it's detected as a Dolphin card, and I _assume_ that is correct. The weirdness with it being COM5 and COM6 had to do with weirdness in my kernel conf file. I suspect the problem is that I need to pass certain flags in the kernel conf, but I don't know which ones. The good news is, after having spent a couple of days fighting this, and getting to the point I was locking up the computer with it, it dawned on me that I had started out there. So I went back and found out that I probably had the IO address for the on-board CO<1 chip wrong originally. Now it seems to be working, which will let me deploy the machine! Thanks for your help on this. I still plan on putting the PCI card in another machine and trying to get it to work, but that may take a while to get to. -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
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