On Friday 10 October 2008 15:47:22 Ward Vandewege wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:04:45AM +0300, Roman Yeryomin wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 11:23 PM, Ward Vandewege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 10:20:29PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: > > >> Roman Yeryomin wrote: > > >> > >> what could be the problem? > > >> > > > > >> > > My 1c has the serial port on a superio chip. I recognize this > > >> > > problem from other boards. I also have a 3c3 where I saw this > > >> > > before I fried the 5536 ATA driver. > > >> > > > >> > Sorry didn't understand what you actually mean here... that I have > > >> > fried my hardware? > > >> > > >> Sorry! No not at all! > > >> > > >> The serial port on alix1c is on the Winbond superio chip. The alix2 > > >> and 3 boards do not have this superio chip and their serial port is > > >> connected directly to the 5536 - and this is probably the reason that > > >> serial doesn't work anymore. > > > > > > I don't understand - serial works fine for me on the 2c3. Getting > > > serial to work was in fact the 'hardest' part of doing the 2c3 port > > > based on the .1c code, because of the absense of the winbond superio > > > chip. It required all of changing a few lines of code :) > > > > that image you gave me.. serial works with it for you, right? (I didn't > > check) > > Yes, it does work for me. At 115200n8 of course. Note that the alix ships > with tinybios set to a (much) lower speed.
yes, I know, it's 38400, but I use 115200 for your image -- it's hard not to notice this :) > > also what kind of linux distribution you have? does it work with busybox > > also? > > I use voyage linux (http://linux.voyage.hk), which is basically Debian + > some specifics for embedded systems. It specifically supports alix, and it > really easy to install onto a CF card from your pc. hmm... will look at it I suppose it uses busybox too, right? Can you post your `cat /proc/cmdline` and /etc/inittab (if it's set to use one)? Roman -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

