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  • Cyclades-Y multiserial card

    From eh41@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 29 17:22:26 2020
    I'm currently trying to get a Cyclades-Y multiserial card running
    under NetBSD 7. Dmesg shows the card:

    cy0 at pci4 dev 6 function 0: Cyclades-Y multiport serial
    cy0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 20
    cy0: 8 channels (ttyCY000..ttyCY007)

    In /etc/ttys they are defined (ttyCY000 to ttyCY007) like this:

    ttyCY000 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt220 on

    Anyhow, "ps -axuc | grep getty" shows a question mark instead of the
    terminal line. Also, a connected hardware vt320 device doesn't show a
    login prompt.

    Any hint about what I've forgotten?

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  • From jeff@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 29 12:36:13 2020
    On 1/29/20 10:22 AM, eh41 wrote:
    I'm currently trying to get a Cyclades-Y multiserial card running
    under NetBSD 7. Dmesg shows the card:

    cy0 at pci4 dev 6 function 0: Cyclades-Y multiport serial
    cy0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 20
    cy0: 8 channels (ttyCY000..ttyCY007)

    In /etc/ttys they are defined (ttyCY000 to ttyCY007) like this:

    ttyCY000 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt220 on

    Anyhow, "ps -axuc | grep getty" shows a question mark instead of the
    terminal line. Also, a connected hardware vt320 device doesn't show a
    login prompt.

    Any hint about what I've forgotten?


    You might want to re-post on one of the NetBSD mailing lists to get
    better feedback; this news group is pretty dead unfortunately.

    Been a long time since I messed around with hooking up a serial terminal
    on NetBSD. I do recall this being helpful:

    http://www.netbsd.org/docs/Hardware/Misc/serial.html

    Maybe the cy(4) manpage helps?

    https://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?cy+4.i386+NetBSD-7.0

    --J

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  • From jeff@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 29 12:51:28 2020
    On 1/29/20 10:22 AM, eh41 wrote:
    I'm currently trying to get a Cyclades-Y multiserial card running
    under NetBSD 7. Dmesg shows the card:

    cy0 at pci4 dev 6 function 0: Cyclades-Y multiport serial
    cy0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 20
    cy0: 8 channels (ttyCY000..ttyCY007)

    In /etc/ttys they are defined (ttyCY000 to ttyCY007) like this:
    ..
    Any hint about what I've forgotten?



    This might also help for your specific card:

    https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/1097

    Apparently for the Cyclades Cyclom-8Y you set the IRQs using onboard DIP switches. Also it sends no RTS signal.

    --J

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  • From Volker Englisch@21:1/5 to jeff on Fri Feb 7 22:30:06 2020
    jeff schrieb am 29.01.2020:
    On 1/29/20 10:22 AM, eh41 wrote:
    I'm currently trying to get a Cyclades-Y multiserial card running
    under NetBSD 7. Dmesg shows the card:

    cy0 at pci4 dev 6 function 0: Cyclades-Y multiport serial
    cy0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 20
    cy0: 8 channels (ttyCY000..ttyCY007)

    In /etc/ttys they are defined (ttyCY000 to ttyCY007) like this:

    ttyCY000 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt220 on

    Anyhow, "ps -axuc | grep getty" shows a question mark instead of the
    terminal line. Also, a connected hardware vt320 device doesn't show a
    login prompt.

    Any hint about what I've forgotten?

    You might want to re-post on one of the NetBSD mailing lists to get
    better feedback; this news group is pretty dead unfortunately.

    Thanks for your suggestions. Well, I was never a friend of mailing
    lists, so I avoided them now again :-)

    After reading a lot of documentation, I finally got that card up. When
    having a FreeBSD background, one is used to have cua* devices beneath
    the tty* ones. In NetBSD, there are dty* devices instead. Placing a
    "dtyCY000 ... getty ... local" in the /etc/ttys solved the problem.
    Works great now. Took just some time to figure it out :-)

    In the meantime, I tried a Debian Linux. It worked out-of-the box so
    far. If there wasn't that ******* systemd part of the system. Hard to
    reveal how you get a getty on a certain tty. So I really prefer the BSD style...

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