Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:25:35 -0500 From: "Doug Poland" <doug@polands.org> To: "WATANABE Kazuhiro" <CQG00620@nifty.ne.jp> Cc: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Moxa 8-port serial multiplexor, how-to Message-ID: <6579ba376a1ddbe9c4edc1e0d750bdc3.squirrel@email.polands.org> In-Reply-To: <20090729170409.979FF7816C@mail2.asahi-net.or.jp> References: <06297f4d151cb94042e8efd01e04afdb.squirrel@email.polands.org> <20090729170409.979FF7816C@mail2.asahi-net.or.jp>
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On Wed, July 29, 2009 12:04, WATANABE Kazuhiro wrote: > > At Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:32:52 -0500, > Doug Poland wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm trying to get a Moxa Technologies C168H/PCI 8-port mux card >> working in 7.2-RELEASE(i386). >> >> I've recompiled a GENERIC kernel with >> >> options COM_MULTIPORT >> >> and loaded the puc(4) module. I don't have any new ttyd? or cuad? >> devices in /dev. >> >> After reading the handbook(26.2) and man puc(4), sio(4). man sio(4) >> talks about adding /boot/device.hints but not for my particular >> hardware. I'm at a loss on how to continue. >> >> Suggestions, pointers, URLs welcome. >> >> > Hi. > > If you want to load the puc(4) driver as a loadable module, you should > load the sio(4) or uart(4) driver module as well. But these drivers > are included in the GENERIC kernel. So you should to remove sio(4) or > uart(4) from the kernel and load it as a loadable module. > > The other solution is to builtin the puc(4) driver to the > kernel. i.e.: > > sio(4) puc(4) status > or uart(4) > ---------------------------------------- > module module work > builtin builtin work > builtin module not work <- current choice? > module builtin not work > ---------------------------------------- > (module = loadable module, builtin = kernel builtin) > > Other modifications will not be needed for PCI multiport cards. > I removed devices sio and uart from my kernel, loaded them as modules in /boot/loader.conf, and now I have 8 additional cuad? devices! Many thanks for your help. -- Regards, Doug
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