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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!nott!uotcsi2!revcan!micor!latour!diana!db From: db@diana.ocunix.on.ca (Dyane Bruce) Subject: Re: bidirectional com ports Message-ID: <1993Nov5.205347.12290@diana.ocunix.on.ca> Organization: db Software References: <CFw6yK.EBq@feenix.metronet.com> <MYCROFT.93Nov4123252@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <CG00F4.69n@feenix.metronet.com> Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1993 20:53:47 GMT Lines: 44 In article <CG00F4.69n@feenix.metronet.com> pgilley@feenix.metronet.com (Phil Gilley) writes: >In article <MYCROFT.93Nov4123252@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes: >> >>In article <CFw6yK.EBq@feenix.metronet.com> >>pgilley@feenix.metronet.com (Phil Gilley) writes: >> >> Do either of these support bidirectional com ports? ... > >From the mail I've received, I understand this is not a problem with >FreeBSD 1.0, but I've had conflicting responses concerning NetBSD. *sigh* I just went through this exercise. I installed NetBSD 0.9 and it does not have bi-directional com ports, but netbsd-current does. This is perhaps the confusion. I am waiting for a local friend to sup the latest NetBSD locally because I need bi-directional com ports _badly_. Colin Surprenant (galaad@rot.qc.ca) had put together a patch kit for NetBSD 0.8 from cgd's original work (com-beta-0.21), but has not got a version for NetBSD 0.9 (There are major enough differences in the locations of device files, and changes to the com files themselves. non-trivial) (I found out from him that netbsd-current had the new 'comsio' driver...) As the 'com' driver is very buggy on my hardware (486 DX 66mhz) anyway, (I have yet to manage to get an incoming modem connection going) I have decided to wait until I get the new 'comsio' driver for NetBSD and throw the 'com' driver in the garbage.... There seems little point debugging an obsolete driver... If anyone would care to email me a copy of the latest 'comsio' driver, I wouldn't say no :-) but check with me first via email. Just what I need. 6 MB of duplicate driver source through my ....slow.... modem.... ;-) -- Dyane Bruce db@diana.ocunix.on.ca 29 Vanson Ave. Nepean On, K2E 6A9 Am I the only one who has trouble 613-225-9920 thinking up witty sayings for here?