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From: rae@guug.de (Ralf Engelschall)
Subject: Some simple questions
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Organization: Technical University of Munich, Germany
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1993 13:08:31 GMT
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Some questions about 386BSD which I wasn't able to answer myself...
(If these questions are one of the FAQs please excuse me!)
[The 386BSD box I use is a i486/33/8MB with 386bsd 0.1/pl0.2.1]
1. The 386bsd console is per default set to TERMinal type 'PC3'.
== This seems not be a fully VT100-compatible type, because when I
rlogin from the 386BSD console to one of our SUNs (tcsh with
vt100 sequences) all works great except the fact, that e.g.
UNDERLINE is displayed as dark blue & blinking text.
Is this behaviour correct. If not, how can I change the 386BSD
console to a real VT100 (or VT220) terminal?
2. Another problem with the 386BSD console: We are in germany, i.e.
== our PCs use german key-layout. I patched pccons.c to the german
layout (works ok, with the except that I have to use CTRL for
the ALT key [I had no more time to patch this also]).
Is there a better solution, e.g. another console driver
(sos-syscons, codrv?) I can use or a better already released patch?
3. I want to by a own 386BSD box (my current ones are PCs at work),
== i.e. a i486/50. I have read a lot of problems about using
an EISA motherboard plus the Adaptec AHA-1742b SCSI host adapter.
What is the current status? Works it already stable and if there
are still some problems, how to get this combination work?
(The was something said about Julians SCSI-drivers?, etc...)
Is is an advantage to buy a EISA + AHA-1742b instead of the
standard combination of ISA + AHA-1542b?
4. I want to put my old Worldblazer modem, a mouse for X11 (for the
== console running under XFree86 as currently at work) _and_
a ANSI/VT100 terminal (WYSE) for remote work to my new computer.
These pheriperals will need 3(!) serial ports. 386BSD per default
is (to my knowledge) only supporting 2 COM ports.
Can I put some standard IO card into the computer which supplies
the computer with 4 IO ports (4 different IRQs) and use all these
4 ports under 386BSD? What have to be patched to get these
work correctly (new com drivers, i.e. CGD's ones?)? Or is it enough
to create the special files (MKDEV) for the devices because the
drivers are already compiled into 386BSD kernel (I think no)?
Thanks in advance for answering these questions.
Ralf S. Engelschall
rse@angle.cyvaned.com