Re: Cyclades

[Alexander Litvin <archer@lucky.net>]

On Sat, 19 Jul 1997, Mats O Jansson wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Jul 1997, Alexander Litvin wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Being new to OpenBSD (FreeBSD is my platform), I may
> > ask quite awkward newbie questions, so I apologise.
> > 
> > Well, we have here Cyclades multiport serial card --
> > don't remember exactly the modification -- it's PCI.
> > I was able to compile kernel for it (though it seems
> > that nobody ever compiled kernel with cy* on pci0 enabled ;)
> 
> that could be correct :-)

Should be, because of obvious errors in dev/pci/cy_pci.c. Though
correcting them isn't a problem, I really doubt if the board is going
to work if the driver was not tested even once. But what am I to do? 
FreeBSD driver for pci cy compiles, but under some substantial load
(15 modems on 16-port card) system crashes in a couple of minutes
after boot. The next bet is OpenBSD. Well, thanx to your response, I
mknod'ed some dev'ses for cy0. Unfortunately, the box is not in front
of me, and after cu -l /dev/cuac0 (I called the device so) system most
probably crashed -- it doesn't respond to ping anymore :(. On monday
I'll be able to look at it. Fortunately, it is not in service...

What should I try next? Linux?

> > But what am I supposed to do next? I mean, where are my
> > /dev/cua* devices for it? I was unable to find any mention
> > as for majors for Cyclades ports. And, generally, under FreeBSD,
> > there is a file /sys/i386/conf/majors.i386, containing all
> > majors for all possible devices. Where can I find such info
> > in OpenBSD?
> 
> The file is called sys/arch/i386/i386/conf.c
> 
> and the major number seems to be 38.

Thanx a lot for the help. I hope it is not the last my OpenBSD
installation ;)

> 
> -moj
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Mats O Jansson, CelsiusTech Systems, Jaerfaella, Sweden
> email: maja@celsiustech.se (or moj@stacken.kth.se)
> 

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