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From: mazumdar@mary.cs.fredonia.edu (Jin Mazumdar)
Subject: FreeBSD lpa help needed
Message-ID: <1993Oct25.155911.19498@penny.cs.fredonia.edu>
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Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1993 15:59:11 GMT
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	I am writing my  experiences with FreeBSD  in case  anyone but
myself is interested.  I  also have  a few questions at the end of the
posting.

	I had 386BSD on my 486DX50 IDE machine working pretty well.  I
was able to compile the kernel and all sources.  One major problem was
that the com ports would not handle high speed communications.

	I  bought  a  larger   disk  and   installed  FreeBSD  on  it.
Experiences were overall very pleasant.  Things worked smoothly till I
was  set to read in the binary distribution.  At this point mount_pcfs
was unable to mount my DOS diskettes with  the binary  distribution on
them.  mount_pcfs kept coming back with an "invalid argument" message.

	However, I retreived the binaries for mcopy and mread from the
utilities directory.  Mcopy didn't work (doesn't work even now).  With
mread, I  was able to load in all the binaries and sources and extract
them manually.  It is nice to have the dos stuff on my disk accessible
via FreeBSD.

	The sio com  driver  works like a  charm.  The com  port works
great for dial in  but wait...  I was  able  to  connect  a 14.4k baud
modem, run slip on it and actually mount a NFS file system over it and
get  reasonable  response!!!   I  was  impressed.   No  SILO  overflow
messages.

Problems
--------

	I get  the stray interrupt 7  message  and my printer will not
work.  The lpc program reports  the  printer to be offline.  I had the
interrupt-less printer  working fine under  386BSD by taking the patch
and building it into the kernel.

	I  am sure  these problems have been discussed.  Could someone
please explain the  stray interrupt  problem  and  the reason  why  my
printer  will not work  or point me to articles  which  address  these
issues.

	Thanks in advance.

--
			Jin Mazumdar        

(internet:) mazumdar@cs.fredonia.edu

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