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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!wupost!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!news.u.washington.edu!ogicse!das-news.harvard.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!aw2t+ From: aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Alex R.N. Wetmore) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: 386bsd questions Message-ID: <MeeK4CS00Vp801tSYg@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: 5 Sep 92 17:38:22 GMT Article-I.D.: andrew.MeeK4CS00Vp801tSYg Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 32 A few questions that I have: 1) With the network, it doesn't seem to start unless I run ifconfig manually. I have added the line: ifconfig ec0 inet 128.2.111.111 netmask 255.255.0.0 in /etc/netstart, but my nameservers don't seem to work until i run the same command manually from a root login. 2) My com1: port locks up. There is something about a tty_ring.c replacment in the FAQ, but I couldn't find it. com2: works fine. 2b) is there support for com3: and com4:? 3) is there a ansi driver for the console with better emulation. For now I have been using a z29 and a pc on com ports, but with one of the out and two people who use the machine (my roommate and i), it would be nice to have two working terminals. The driver doesn't seem to emulate a vt100 or ansi very well though, and is missing a lot of attributes (like rev-video). 4) I have 6 megs unpartitioned on my hard drive. Is there a way to add this as swap space. I assume I have to disklabel and newfs it, but I am not sure how to access it from bsd? Do I make a partition with dos fdisk or norton and work from there? 5) The distributed kernel is about 400k or so. After compiling the default kernel, I had a kernel of 460k or so. What has been added? Mostly just courious. otherwise, thanks to those who have gotten this project out of the door. Everything is running great! alex