On 11/22/17 09:37, Jens A. Griepentrog wrote: > Dear Misc Listeners, > > After the installation of a Logilink PC0017 4x serial puc(4) addon card, > my system initially hung at "setting tty flags" at boot. After a reboot > in single-user mode, from now on the hang-ups are gone away also in > multi-user mode but it seems to me that only two of the four > additional serial ports are configured. This will be no drama since, > in fact, I only need two additional serial ports. > > Please, find below the corresponding output of dmesg or pcidump. > > Thank you very much and with best regards, > Jens
I've ... had the same troubles with similar cards. I don't think I ever put one in a MP machine before, but what I found is that the machines I wanted to use it with (old PII/PIII/celeron systems) refused to finish booting, hanging exactly as you describe. On a P4 system, they WOULD boot, but took me a while to realize there was something wrong -- very high power consumption, fans running too fast/system running too hot, and a very high interrupt load for no obvious reason. Remove the card, the machine would return to "normal" operation. And that was on cards where the ports were recognized properly (and also several years ago). I've since given up on the things, and been using 8 serial port to one USB port devices, which seem to work much better. Every once in a long while they require a reboot of the computer or the unplugging and replugging of the USB port to reset them, so only use them on dedicated terminal servers. I have a couple that cost around the $100 point, as I recall, far less trouble than the NetMos chip cards gave me. Nick. > > $ dmesg > OpenBSD 6.1 (GENERIC.MP) #24: Wed Oct 4 18:47:09 CEST 2017 > > rob...@syspatch-61-amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP > real mem = 17154113536 (16359MB) > avail mem = 16629542912 (15859MB) > mpath0 at root > scsibus0 at mpath0: 256 targets > mainbus0 at root > bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.6 @ 0xf06f0 (62 entries) > bios0: vendor American Megatrends Inc. version "0705" date 06/29/2010 > bios0: ASUSTeK Computer INC. P7F-M WS > acpi0 at bios0: rev 2 > acpi0: sleep states S0 S1 S3 S4 S5 > acpi0: tables DSDT FACP APIC MCFG OEMB HPET SSDT > acpi0: wakeup devices BR1E(S4) UAR1(S4) PS2K(S4) EUSB(S4) USB0(S4) > USB1(S4) USB2(S4) USB3(S4) USBE(S4) USB4(S4) USB5(S4) USB6(S4) BR21(S4) > BR22(S4) BR23(S4) P0P1(S4) [...] > acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 24 bits > acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee00000: PC-AT compat > cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor) > cpu0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L3426 @ 1.87GHz, 1867.00 MHz > cpu0: > FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE,SSE3,DTES64,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX,SMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,POPCNT,NXE,RDTSCP,LONG,LAHF,PERF,ITSC,SENSOR > cpu0: 256KB 64b/line 8-way L2 cache > cpu0: TSC frequency 1866999600 Hz > cpu0: smt 0, core 0, package 0 ...
