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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.kei.com!ub!penny!mary!mazumdar From: mazumdar@mary.cs.fredonia.edu (Jin Mazumdar) Subject: FreeBSD lpa help needed Message-ID: <1993Oct25.155911.19498@penny.cs.fredonia.edu> Sender: news@penny.cs.fredonia.edu (News Administrator) Organization: Math / CS, State Univ. of N. Y. College at Fredonia X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1993 15:59:11 GMT Lines: 50 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 >>> Dept. Of Math and C. S. <<< >>> State University of New York College at Fredonia <<< >>> Fredonia, N.Y. 14063 (716) 673 3459 <<<