Re: Sparc classic serial ports ttya vs cuaa

2010-03-22 Thread Alex Carver
Alexander Carver wrote: Miod Vallat wrote: Hi all, I've been working on getting gpsd working on one of my old Sun IPXes but I've run into a problem with ldattach needing the /dev/cuaa device. The serial port /dev/ttya is working with gpsd directly but ldattach requires /dev/cuaa. However,

Re: Sparc classic serial ports ttya vs cuaa

2010-03-21 Thread Alex Carver
Miod Vallat wrote: Hi all, I've been working on getting gpsd working on one of my old Sun IPXes but I've run into a problem with ldattach needing the /dev/cuaa device. The serial port /dev/ttya is working with gpsd directly but ldattach requires /dev/cuaa. However, according to the system l

init fails after kernel build

2010-03-20 Thread Alex Carver
Hi everyone, I managed to get the kernel to build on my sparc system. I'm booting to the new kernel but I get an error that reads: init: /bin/sh on /etc/rc terminated abnormally, going to single user mode Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for sh: So I try a blank (return) and then I get: in

Re: Make "don't know how to make"

2010-03-18 Thread Alex Carver
Matthias Kilian wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 07:14:36PM -0700, Alexander Carver wrote: The error isn't always the same file on two consecutive tries but they do seem to repeat themselves (in other words, init_sysent.c has shown up as an error more than once but not consecutively, same for pf.

Re: Make "don't know how to make"

2010-03-05 Thread Alex Carver
Vadim Zhukov wrote: On 5 March 2010 c. 05:52:49 Alexander Carver wrote: Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda wrote: Alex Carver wrote: Suggestions? are you running current? if so: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/current.html#20100203 No, I am not running current. This is a stock installation of 4.6

Make "don't know how to make"

2010-03-03 Thread Alex Carver
I'm trying to recompile my generic sparc kernel to make use of some /dev/cua* patches that were sent to me on the list not too long ago but now I'm running into a problem with make. When I first received the patches, things were mostly working but I was running out of memory and swap space (sm

Still no luck with OpenBSD/sparc and /dev/cuaa

2010-02-25 Thread Alex Carver
I've tried all the suggestions so far but no luck. I can not ever get /dev/cua* to work properly. Even cat fails: # cat < /dev/cuaa ksh: cannot open /dev/cuaa: Device not configured So the fundamental problem is this "Device not configured" error. How is OpenBSD supposed to be configuring

Sparc classic serial ports ttya vs cuaa

2010-02-22 Thread Alex Carver
Hi all, I've been working on getting gpsd working on one of my old Sun IPXes but I've run into a problem with ldattach needing the /dev/cuaa device. The serial port /dev/ttya is working with gpsd directly but ldattach requires /dev/cuaa. However, according to the system logs, ldattach issue