From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Jul 9 18:24:01 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA20832 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 9 Jul 1995 18:24:01 -0700 Received: from dmssyd.syd.dms.CSIRO.AU (dmssyd.syd.dms.CSIRO.AU [130.155.16.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id SAA20796 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 1995 18:23:33 -0700 Received: from megadata.mega.com.au ([192.55.99.3]) by dmssyd.syd.dms.CSIRO.AU (4.1/5.17) id AA26526; Mon, 10 Jul 95 11:19:57 EST (from andrew@mega.com.au) Received: from noah.mega.com.au by megadata.mega.com.au (4.1/SMI-4.1/MEGA) id AA05852; Mon, 10 Jul 95 11:21:18 EST Date: Mon, 10 Jul 95 11:21:18 EST From: Andrew McRae Message-Id: <9507100121.AA05852@megadata.mega.com.au> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, phk@ref.tfs.com Subject: PCMCIA update Sender: hardware-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Poul, You have probably given up on me :-) I don't blame you... I have a new cut of the PCMCIA stuff that is a fairly complete rewrite with the following changes: - Split off the controller specific stuff from a generic PCCARD front end in the kernel. - The controller specific stuff is done as a LKM. - A new driver interface that uses LKMs to load the drivers - Drivers that unload and load when cards are unplugged. - Multiple drivers per card to allow multi-function cards to work. - Multiple different controller types (like PCIC or TCIC) that work together. - In progress assimilation with the APM stuff. Where can I send this? I think it is a much better code base than the last stuff, since it is a second attempt, and is based on a more generic model. Cheers, Andrew McRae inet: andrew@mega.com.au MITS Real Time Ltd, uucp: ..!uunet!mega.com.au!andrew North Ryde 2113 Phone: +61 2 805 0899 NSW AUSTRALIA Fax: +61 2 887 4847 X-Face: *Ca*Qw_'S?uT3u}"Y,-b[rIRFm*7MaD8zp6$7B?r8k&iGt4'2W@WFXSrP:%Dqk,V8Gap Jer pj*qHbFA!k4YDR"~iAO&gp*T=!KG*'c0:],:l}0(oAm?pdjC0.V{2%3v,w8pwqiL7$^}][Kiz- From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jul 10 00:13:05 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA28759 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 10 Jul 1995 00:13:05 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA28752 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 1995 00:13:01 -0700 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id AAA11323; Mon, 10 Jul 1995 00:10:04 -0700 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199507100710.AAA11323@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: PCMCIA update To: andrew@mega.com.au (Andrew McRae) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 00:10:03 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9507100121.AA05852@megadata.mega.com.au> from "Andrew McRae" at Jul 10, 95 11:21:18 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1022 Sender: hardware-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Poul, > You have probably given up on me :-) Well, yes... > I don't blame you... > I have a new cut of the PCMCIA stuff that is a fairly complete > rewrite with the following changes: > > - Split off the controller specific stuff from a generic PCCARD > front end in the kernel. > - The controller specific stuff is done as a LKM. > - A new driver interface that uses LKMs to load the drivers > - Drivers that unload and load when cards are unplugged. > - Multiple drivers per card to allow multi-function cards to work. > - Multiple different controller types (like PCIC or TCIC) that > work together. > - In progress assimilation with the APM stuff. > > Where can I send this? upload it to freefall:/incoming and I will look at it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Just that: dried leaves in boiling water ? From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 11 02:58:37 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id CAA15491 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 02:58:37 -0700 Received: from puma.cyberport.com (kevin@puma.cyberport.com [204.134.75.6]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA15485 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 02:58:34 -0700 Received: (from kevin@localhost) by puma.cyberport.com (8.6.12/8.6.10) id EAA06833; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 04:00:54 -0600 Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 04:00:54 -0600 (MDT) From: Kevin Rosenberg To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: NCR 53c810 kernel assertion on booting Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hardware-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I am getting an assert error from ncr.c while booting 2.0.5-950622-SNAP. I have an NCR53c810 Rev 1 BIOS-less board with an Intel Plato motherboard. Is there a fix for this problem? Thanks in advance, Kevin ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Kevin Rosenberg | The Four Corner's Finest Internet Access System Administrator | kevin@cyberport.com CyberPort Station | http://www.cyberport.com From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jul 13 08:15:54 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA11752 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 13 Jul 1995 08:15:54 -0700 Received: from dcscorp.com (mailhub.dcscorp.com [204.7.239.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA11734 ; Thu, 13 Jul 1995 08:15:50 -0700 Received: from DCS-Message_Server by dcscorp.com with Novell_GroupWise; Thu, 13 Jul 1995 11:12:51 -0400 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 4.1 Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 11:12:45 -0400 From: Ed Peddycoart To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers-digest@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-install@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-user-groups@freebsd.org Subject: Hardware Requirements for FreeBSD Sender: hardware-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Please forgive me if I have sent this post to the wrong list. I am new to the freebsd lists and I was not sure where I should send this.... I would like to install some version of unix FreeBSD on my machine at home. I want to use a boot manager so that I can have unix but my wife can still have Windows 3.1. My question is do I have supported hardware. I have a 90 MHz pentium (Micron P90), PCI bus, Micronix MotherBoard I believe, Western Digital EIDE 730 MB hard disk, Future Domain SCSI card for CD-ROM which is a Plextor 4x, Mag Innovision 17" monitor 17DF I think, Matrox Impression Plus (2 MB VRAM), HP 4Plus Printer. Can I use FreeBSD as I desire? Thanks in advance From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jul 14 07:47:57 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA12125 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 07:47:57 -0700 Received: from inesc.inesc.pt (inesc.inesc.pt [146.193.0.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA12109 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 07:47:39 -0700 Received: from ccae-sv.inesc.pt by inesc.inesc.pt with SMTP; id AA20993 (/); Fri, 14 Jul 1995 16:12:19 +0200 Received: by ccae-sv.inesc.pt (4.1/SunOS4.1.3) id AA03174; Fri, 14 Jul 95 16:13:44 +0200 Date: Fri, 14 Jul 95 16:13:44 +0200 From: Paulo.Goncalves@inesc.pt (Paulo Antonio Costa Goncalves) Message-Id: <9507141413.AA03174@ccae-sv.inesc.pt> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Compaq ProSignia 300 SCSI Controller... Sender: hardware-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hello! I tried to install FreeBSD 2.0.5 on a Compaq Prosignia 300, which has a built-in PCI based SCSI controller with a NCR 53C810 chip. Unfortunately, the mini-kernel on the boot diskette doesn't recognize the controller, and the SCSI disk connected to it. I presume that this controller is supported by FreeBSD, isn't it? Is there some parameter i have to give to the boot manager??? What shall i do??? Many thanks for any help!!! Paulo Goncalves. ****************************************************************************** Paulo Antonio Costa Goncalves pacg@inesc.pt INESC - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores CCAE - Centro de Comunicacoes em Ambientes Empresariais Av. Duque D'Avila, 23 - 5 Dto. Tel: 351-1-3100069 Fax: 351-1-3100008/9 LISBOA - PORTUGAL ****************************************************************************** "Well, do you ever get the feeling that the story's too damn real and in the present tense? Or that everybody's on the stage, and it seems like you're the only person sitting in the audience?" Jethro Tull, "Skating away on the thin ice of the new day", "Warchild" ****************************************************************************** From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jul 14 09:41:59 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA17265 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 09:41:59 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA17254 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 09:41:43 -0700 Received: by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA19457; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 18:41:24 +0200 From: uk1@irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (Ulf Kieber) Message-Id: <199507141641.AA19457@irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de> Subject: Re: multi IO boards To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 18:41:23 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: bugs@sax.sax.de, j@uriah.heep.sax.de In-Reply-To: <199507131543.AA02527@irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de> from "Ulf Kieber" at Jul 13, 95 05:43:56 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1553 Sender: hardware-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi, we currently discuss buying a multi IO card, and I'd need some help to make the proper decision. As the market for that kinda equipment is rather narrow in Germany, I'm having a very hard time getting my hands on appropriate documentation. We had an offer for a BocaBoard 1004 and BocaBoard 1008, both not usable for our purposes, because they are lacking modem control. The IOAT66 seems to be ok, but has some restriction: only 6 ports, can only use IRQ 4 and 5 as shared IRQs (IRQ 4 is already used for our COM console, and hence cannot be freed). I'd like to hear, if there are any other cards available (I think there is at least an AST 8 port card I'd like to see documentation for), meeting the following requirements: - all ports fifo buffered, - shared IRQ possible (the more choices [especially the IRQs above 8] the better), - hardware modem control, - 8 or 16 ports (best choice would be an 8 port card with an upgrade option to 16 ports, maybe just some empty sockets on the board), - DB25 connectors, if possible, - should of course be supported by FreeBSD. :) Rodney Grimes told me to look into the BocaBoard 2016, but asked me to verify if it meets our requirements. If anybody using that kind of equipment is willing to share experiences I'd be interested too. Note: I'm not on freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, please be sure to send me a Cc. TIA -- Ulf Kieber <{uk1, news}@irz.inf.tu-dresden.de>; ; Don't expect me to be a breeder, and I won't assume you're a fag. From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jul 14 14:34:25 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA28109 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 14:34:25 -0700 Received: from hutcs.cs.hut.fi (root@hutcs.cs.hut.fi [130.233.192.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA28083 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 14:34:10 -0700 Received: from shadows.cs.hut.fi by hutcs.cs.hut.fi with SMTP id AA17922 (5.65c8/HUTCS-S 1.4 for ); Sat, 15 Jul 1995 00:33:52 +0300 Received: (hsu@localhost) by shadows.cs.hut.fi (8.6.10/8.6.10) id AAA29831; Sat, 15 Jul 1995 00:33:53 +0300 Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 00:33:53 +0300 Message-Id: <199507142133.AAA29831@shadows.cs.hut.fi> From: Heikki Suonsivu To: uk1@irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (Ulf Kieber) Cc: freebsd-hardware@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: uk1@irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de's message of 14 Jul 1995 20:08:38 +0300 Subject: Re: multi IO boards Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Otaniemi, Finland Sender: hardware-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'd like to hear, if there are any other cards available (I think there is at least an AST 8 port card I'd like to see documentation for), meeting the following requirements: We use AST 4 clones with 16550's (NS ones) with mixed success; they work fine most of the time, but sometimes the systems panic, and fail to find all the ports on reboot. The initialization code fails, possibly if there is something in the FIFOs. Reboot always cures it. Other than that, with increased serial buffer size they seem to be able to take in 115.2 PPP links with no visible problems. -- Heikki Suonsivu, T{ysikuu 10 C 83/02210 Espoo/FINLAND, hsu@cs.hut.fi home +358-0-8031121 work -4513377 fax -4555276 riippu SN From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Jul 15 09:11:27 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA06355 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 15 Jul 1995 09:11:27 -0700 Received: from netcom11.netcom.com (mgove@netcom11.netcom.com [192.100.81.121]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA06321 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 1995 09:11:24 -0700 Received: by netcom11.netcom.com (8.6.12/Netcom) id JAA11252; Sat, 15 Jul 1995 09:10:05 -0700 From: mgove@netcom.com (Matthew E. Gove) Message-Id: <199507151610.JAA11252@netcom11.netcom.com> Subject: Multiport Question. To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 09:10:04 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 388 Sender: hardware-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I have a Comtrol Hostess 550 8 port serial card that I would like to get working on FreeBSD. Only one problem, I don't have any documentation for the card. Would someone be nice enough to tell me the dip switch settings? A few hints on device entries in the config file would be nice too, but I think I can figure out that once I know the settings.. Thanks Much, Matt Gove