Return to BSD News archive
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!emba-news.uvm.edu!sadye!wollman
From: wollman@sadye (Garrett Wollman)
Subject: Re: 386BSD - 8250 com ports
Message-ID: <1992Jul24.004516.6295@uvm.edu>
Sender: news@uvm.edu
Organization: University of Vermont, EMBA Computer Facility
References: <1992Jul23.125510.4250@ulrik.uio.no>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 00:45:16 GMT
Lines: 17
In article <1992Jul23.125510.4250@ulrik.uio.no> toreh@bootes.sds.no (Tore Haraldsen) writes:
>The com driver (i386/isa/com.c) supplied with 386BSD seems to have
>support only for the "modern" chips, 16540 & 16550. The result is, it
>locks up my com ports of the "old" kind, 8250. Anyone got a "better"
>driver for the com ports?
Hmmm... I've got an 8250, and it works just fine. (The machine's
built-in 16450 died, so we plugged in a card... and I *still* insist
on running SLIP over it.)
-GAWollman
--
Garrett A. Wollman = wollman@emba.uvm.edu = UVM is welcome to my opinions
= uvm-gen!wollman =
That's what being alive is all about. No deity, no higher goal
exists, than to bring joy to another person. - Elf Sternberg