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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!news.larc.nasa.gov!maui.cc.odu.edu!news From: Ragnar <bowden@cs.odu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: My newly installed BOCA is doing wired things! -> Please Help Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 15:52:56 -0500 (EST) Organization: Old Dominion University Lines: 28 Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.951220224426.27983A-100000-100000@tulip.cs.odu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hurricane.cs.odu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4b4rle$lqe@noc.tor.hookup.net> On 18 Dec 1995, Thomas Schroecker wrote: > Hi-ho all ye freebsd users... > I've got me hands on a Boca16 and tried to install it with some weired things > happening. Here's the diagnoses: > First I installed the board with IRQ3, Mem 100, recompiled the kernel > with the following lines in my config: > option "COM_MULTIPORT" First, if you have a serial mouse on com1, then your whole problem is solved. Just put the modem on com2, and recompile with serial sio0 at isa? ...the rest of the line goes here... Then go into /dev, and do ./MAKEDEV cuaa0, ./MAKEDEV cuaa1, etc. Your modem should be on /dev/cuaa1 then. You only need to use COM_MULTIPORT if you plan to use com3, which shares irq4 with com1, and/or com4, which shares irq3 with com2, don't forget the confilcts option in the lines for the conflicting ports. I personally have serial mouse on com1 (cuaa0), and modem on com2 (cuaa1). I did not enable com3 or com4 under FreeBSD, and would recommend that you not enable them either, unless you have some burning need of them. I would also suggest that you not enable more than lpt0 (irq7) either. I treid to use com3 with bsd initially, and found that it was not real useful, and did screwy things with the mouse on the shared irq. Jamie I spent yesterday thinking about the tomorrow that is today.