comtrol rocketport 16 PCI

[John Baldwin]

On Friday 19 August 2005 06:46 pm, Jim Pazarena wrote:
> the 5.4 kernel appears to support rocketport simply by including
> "device rp" in the kernel compile, after which devices like:
>
> /dev/ttyR[0-9a-f]
> /dev/ttyiR[0-9a-f]
> /dev/ttylR[0-9a-f]
> /dev/cuaR[0-9a-f]
> /dev/cuaiR[0-9a-f]
> /dev/cualR[0-9a-f]
>
> get created.

The init and locked variants you probably don't need to worry about.  They are 
just like cuai* and cual* for regular cuaa* devices for sio(4).

> would someone please advise the purpose of the "iR" & "lR" devices?
>
> also, comtrol has some kind of support for the 5 kernel on their
> ftp site; with a few instructions on how to remove some existing
> files, add some of theirs, and re-compile the kernel.
> their instructions suggest that ports are: /dev/ttyC* and /dev/cuaC*
>
> when following _their_ instructions, a fresh kernel compile crashes.
> I see someone posted a question WRT the compile crash back in 1/24/05.
> there were no responses.
>
> I would like to confirm that the existing FreeBSD settings for rocketport
> support do indeed work, and that it isn't necessary to go thru comtrol's
> compilation routine.

I use the existing driver just fine on 5, 6, and 7 with an 8-port rp(4) card.

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