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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!nigel.msen.com!heifetz.msen.com!cybernet.com!root From: root@cybernet.com (Operator (aka Mark Taylor)) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: [Q] Help needed with 4port(s !! Date: 12 Aug 1994 14:59:32 GMT Organization: Cybernet Systems, Inc. Lines: 58 Distribution: world Message-ID: <32g2ok$ped$1@heifetz.msen.com> References: <31d521$107@News.Simplex.NL> <94Aug12.004730.17918@eeubln.IN-Berlin.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.245.33.55 In article <94Aug12.004730.17918@eeubln.IN-Berlin.DE>, nora@eeubln.IN-Berlin.DE (Nora E. Etukudo) writes: |> in article <31d521$107@News.Simplex.NL>, |> from 30 Jul 1994 09:03:42 GMT, |> rob@Simplex.NL also known as "Rob Simons", wrote [shortend]: |> [...] |> r@S: "I have the following problem with two AST-compatible 4ports in my FreeBSD" |> r@S: "1.1.5.1 machine .. apparently the kernel doesn't recognise any of the" |> r@S: "ports on the cards." |> |> Hello, did you get an answer already? I've exactly the same |> problem. |> |> Are there any AST-FourPort cards working under FreeBSD-1.1.5.1 any- |> where? |> |> Hopin' for help, Nora. |> -- |> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |> Nora E. Etukudo <nora@eeubln.IN-Berlin.DE> |> Joachim-Friedrich-Str. 39c +4930 8932911, 14400-V42bis, 0000-2359h |> D-10711 Berlin +4930 8922407, 14400-V42bis, 2245-0745h |> Login with nuucp (nuucp) or source () |> Germany Get ~/archiv/INDEX.z |> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |> I've gotten my FastComm 4W board to work in 1.1.5.1. It also worked in 1.1.Beta. Those are the two FreeBSD versions that I've used on that particular system. Note that the default kernels do not support multiport cards. It has to be enabled via "options "COM_MULTIPORT"" and flags for the sio devices in the kernel config file. HELP IS AVAILABLE: Anyone who has problems with their sio ports being probed, please OR your kernel config flag for those sio ports' flags with "0x0080" to enable a diagnostic output (see sio(4)). E-mail me (geez I'm askin' for it! :) the results of the probe after that (using "dmesg" to retrieve the last boot's output), as well as the lines for sio devices in your kernel config file. FreeBSD 1.1 systems do not have the flag for diagnostic output :( so if these people would just mail me the probe's output and their kernel config file, I'll start from there. I think that the port with the IRQ must be the last one probed. My system was getting "sioN: probe test 3 failed" on 3 of the 4 ports (all but the master failed) until I got this right. In 1.1.Beta, the FastComm 4W board was fine. It was not as tricky to get it to work (the probe code was not as complicated). Bob Wilcox has several BocaBoards installed in his machine. These have 4, 8, or 16 ports (I cannot remember his exact configuration). There are many others (including the person (Andrew Chernov, et.al.) who wrote parts of the driver, of course!) who have multi-port boards. -Mark Taylor mtaylor@cybernet.com