Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 10:57:33 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, gavin@itworks.com.au Subject: Re: Serial port problems Message-ID: <19980510105733.C12200@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199805091115.VAA30393@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on Sat, May 09, 1998 at 09:15:56PM %2B1000 References: <199805091115.VAA30393@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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On Sat, 9 May 1998 at 21:15:56 +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: >> I've just acquired 2 servers to run 2.2.6-RELEASE on. They are both using >> Iwill P55XUB motherboards. The book that came with the motherboard says >> that the onboard serial ports are NS16C550 compatible. > > It apparently misspells `incompatible' :-). There have been several > reports that serial ports on Iwills don't work under FreeBSD. This appears to be traceable to a specific Acer UART. Yuri Krichevsky has done a quick hack to fix it, and it works well (I'm using an Iwill board as well). Pick up the patches at http://www.lemis.com/serial-port-patch.html >> kernel panic as soon as is probes for the serial ports. The last message >> before the cu session closed is >> Probing for devices ocu: Got hangup signal This is different from what I've seen, however, but I'm not running 2.2.6. I wonder if this is the result of booting with a serial console. Anyway, grab the patch and tell me (and Yuri) if that helps. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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