missing serial devices on NetraX1
akela at terminal.cz
akela at terminal.cz
Thu Jun 12 05:35:19 PDT 2003
John-Mark> Honza Dusak wrote this message on Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 11:18 +0200:
>> Yesterday I installed FreeBSD-5.1BETA on NetraX1 and I wanted
>> to use the serial B port as a network interface ( slattach ) .
>> But I cannot find any notice about serial drivers in the dmesg
>> output and neither there is no ttyb ( or cuaa* ) device at
>> /dev directory .
>>
>> Please, can anybody advise what can be missing ?
John-Mark> I think you have a similar box to mine, which uses an ALi
John-Mark> south bridge for serial.
John-Mark> The problem is that you can't have both serial (sio) ports
John-Mark> running at the same time otherwise you might lock up your
John-Mark> box.
John-Mark> Try adding:
John-Mark> hint.sio.1.at="isa"
John-Mark> hint.sio.1.port="0x2E8"
John-Mark> hint.sio.1.irq="4"
thank you, this did the trick . I have also noticed the sio driver
is commented at GENERIC on the sparc-64 archicture .
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Honza Dusak
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