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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!nntp.uio.no!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux Date: 29 Mar 1997 16:50:08 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 36 Message-ID: <5hjh80$r03@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <01bc39ca$4cb6d9c0$232c3d9b@muna019> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38058 "Andreas Hinterleitner" <ahinterleitn@bangate.eur.compaq.com> wrote: > - the APM on my Compaq LTE Elite doesn't work correctly, even with apm > driver present (return from standby: screen is still black); APM was a little green in FreeBSD 2.1.x. Better get a 2.2 vintage system if you want APM. > also the kernel reports "sio0: not found on 0x3f8" - the PC setup shows > COM1 at exactly this address and a 16550 compatible UART is used (Linux has > no problems with this!) ``compatible''? How compatible? Several internal modems only emulate an UART with their ASIC, and are sometimes very slow in this. You might want to turn on flag 0x80 (see sio(4)) to see which probes have failed (you can do this after booting with -c). > - the FreeBSD "handbook" is only a poor basis for obtaining general > information about FreeBSD as other documentation is also; I ordered some > books to get in depth information; kernel parameters are sparsely commented Kernel params are commented in /sys/i386/conf/LINT, a sample configuration file that is not intended for real use but mostly serves documentation purposes. General information on FreeBSD can be obtained by reading general Unix books. Don't forget to RTFM. The man pages are in a reasonably consistent state (not just ``borrowed together'' as i've seen on some L*x distributions). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)