From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 22 10:54: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from trooper.velocet.ca (trooper.velocet.net [209.167.225.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE1C31528B for ; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 10:53:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dgilbert@trooper.velocet.ca) Received: (from dgilbert@localhost) by trooper.velocet.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA54712; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 13:51:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dgilbert) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14231.23083.858159.574338@trooper.velocet.ca> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 13:51:39 -0400 (EDT) To: Greg Lynn Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Always check serial cables!! In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.71 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Greg" == Greg Lynn writes: Greg> Well I found me freakin problem... serial cable was bad OR not Greg> meant for my particular mb!! Now how often do serial cables go Greg> bad you ask ? This is a first for me! For a minute there I Greg> thought just maybe the kernel was lying about finding sio0 ... Actually, there are 10 pins on the motherboard and 9 pins used for serial communications. I have in my office expamples of 6 different serial cables --- all plug compatible, but wired differently. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message