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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!halley!integrity!haynes From: haynes@devnull.mpd.tandem.com (Jeff Haynes) Subject: Misc 386BSD questions Message-ID: <1994Aug15.160453.12929@integrity.uucp> Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc Sender: usenet@integrity.uucp (Integrity News System) Reply-To: haynes@devnull.mpd.tandem.com Organization: Tandem Computers, Inc. Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 16:04:53 GMT Lines: 43 I am having problems with FreeBSD and my new motherboard. I got an ASUS PCI/ISA SP3 motherboard with the NCR SCSI controller, 2 16550 serial ports and a parellel port on the motherboard. I have 32MB memory. List of problems: 1. Everytime I access a serial port, the system locks up. I have to reboot. The virtual terminals work fine. The problem occurs if I use "cu -l /dev/ttyd0", cu -l /dev/cua00", or even "echo abc > /dev/ttyd0". I am using the default device line in the kernel config file, as well as "options COM_BIDIR". Is this a hardware problem? Anybody else have this problem? 2. Before last night, the memory test during boot up would show Testing memory (32MB) ... Now, for some reason, when the memory is being tested, I get the message, Testing memory (16MB) ... The BIOS still shows 32MB memory and it tests OK on the power up tests, so it doesn't seem like the memory is bad. What's going on? The only thing I changed was a couple of line in the kernel config file, having to do with the ep0 ethernet driver and other unrelated stuff. Anybody else having this problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I can't get UUCP running without the serial ports and I obviously want to know if something is wrong with the memory. Thanks in advance! -- Jeff Haynes Tandem Computers, Inc. haynes@mpd.tandem.com