On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 12:50 PM Bill Gunshannon via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> > It's been a fun journey but I finally have 2.11 BSD (Patchlevel 431) > running on my real 11/93. > > On to the next challenges. > > Does anyone know which serial device I should configure for in order > to get the other serial lines working? Everything I read says they > are DL lines and calls the builtin controller a DLV22. There is no > such device in the 2.11 config. Any suggestions? > I believe the console plus the seven additional serial lines show up as individual DL11 units; these are configured via the NKL parameter in your kernel configuration. Set it to 8 and see what happens... > > Also having trouble with the ethernet. It won't come up. Are there > network modules that do not work under 2.11? > Can you elaborate as to what you're doing here (what hardware, how you're bringing it up, etc) and what errors you're getting or what behavior you're seeing? > > Any chance that any of this will be fixed if I go ahead and patch it > up to 450? I was holding out doing the additional patching until I > had everything running but maybe because the 11/93 was the last PDP-11 > made maybe there is stuff in there that was added later. > > I plan to go at it slowly as I had a lot of patches that failed when > I was doing this on a simulator but I want to try and get all of them > to work on this system. > It can't hurt anything, but my guess is that it's unlikely to solve your networking issues. - Josh > > At least I now have a real PDP-11 with a TMSCP tape working so I can > try making some real tapes for other things. I have four PDP-11s > set up right now with various configurations. I hope to have all of > them running something before I am done. > bill >
