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Subject: SDL Riscomm/8 driver does not work
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>Number:         5353
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       SDL Riscomm/8 driver does not work
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          support
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Dec 20 20:00:01 PST 1997
>Closed-Date:    Thu Apr 30 13:20:02 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:  Thu Apr 30 13:21:34 PDT 1998
>Originator:     Jon Myers
>Release:        2.1.0, 2.2.2, 2.2.5, all flavors, and 3.0-snap
>Organization:
The Circuit's Edge
>Environment:
FreeBSD tcenet.Syra.NET 2.2.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE #0: Fri May 30 22:15
:12 EDT 1997     root@tce-link.syra.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/TCELINK  i386
FreeBSD tce.tcenet.net 2.1.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Dec 22 23:01:
10 EST 1996     myersjw@news.alfredtech.edu:/usr/src/sys/compile/TCE  i386

>Description:
riscomm board (rc0) driver does not work.  upon trying to use on
any system from 386-40 upto penti-100, and any flavor of FreeBSD
version, used in either ide or scsi environment, with and without net
card, or other serial card(s) FreeBSD kernel panics.

>How-To-Repeat:
put a riscomm/8 in your computer, and set it up in the config file, 
re-compile, and try to use tip, or anything else on one or two of the
lines..
>Fix:
write some working drivers for the riscomm/8 or
fix the existing defective drivers or
remove all references from your documents, faq, and handbook saying 
FreeBSD supports this card when it doesent.
 
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: phk 
State-Changed-When: Thu Apr 30 13:20:02 PDT 1998 
State-Changed-Why:  
no details we can use to improve the situation if it is indeed that bad. 
>Unformatted:
