Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 15:21:47 -0400 (EDT) From: DAN WELCH <WELCHDW@wofford.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: riscom8 multiport board Message-ID: <950908152147.60201016@wofford.edu>
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Please help me get this RISCom board running! Here's what I have done: [1] In my new kernel config file I added these two lines: options COM_MULTIPORT #code for some cards with shared IRQs device rc0 at isa? port 0x220 tty irq 12 vector rcintr On the assumption that rc0 is a single device with multiple elements, I did not make a whole series of entries like I do for sio multiport. The compile proceeded without errors. The system reports the presence of board and 8 channels during boot. The dmesg lines are rc0 at 0x220 irq 12 on isa rc0: 8 chans, firmware rev. C [2] Looking in /dev/MAKEDEV convinced me that I needed to create /dev/ttym0 through /dev/ttym7 and perhaps /dev/cuam0 through /dev/cuam7 so I created both sets. [3] I placed these lines into /etc/ttys: ttym0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 off secure ttym1 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 off secure ttym2 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" unknown off secure ttym3 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" unknown off secure ttym4 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" unknown off secure ttym5 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" unknown off secure ttym6 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" unknown off secure ttym7 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" unknown off secure The failure mode: The machine locks up at the first attempt to access the port. The error message rc0: chan 0: lost TX intr, reinit comes directly from rc.c (the driver) but I do not understand it. The failure occurs as soon as getty tries to start up on the port. I disabled getty and used Kermit to access the port manually. Same behavior. Thanks for reading this far. I sure could use some help!
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