Back in sept/oct 1999 I tried to make it work to no avail.  I went so far as
to even buy a newer version of the card, as second newer version of the
card, tried in Classic, then LX then SS5 and then SS20 and never got more
than garbage.  So then I built the kernel with gobs of debugging and found
that it's trying to talk to it, but I too never worked out what is really
going wrong.

Something I never figured out as well was if the speed selection in the line
discipline was done in magma's solaris driver or if it's done on the board;
ie. If I want 115.2k, so I open the port at 4800 baud?  So then I downloaded
freebsd -- same behavior.

Ultimately I found it easier to pick up SS5's whenever I needed another
serial port.  If you do find a way to make it happy, I too would be happy.

peter

on 12/28/01 4:31 PM, der Mouse at mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA wrote:

> I see there's a driver in sys/dev/sbus for Magma cards.
> 
> However, I've got a card that it doesn't seem to like.  Is there
> anybody who understands the Magma stuff, and/or who can give me a
> pointer to someone at Magma who won't give me a blank stare when I
> start talking about NetBSD?  I'd like to make the driver support this,
> but as yet can't do much but take potshots in the dark.
> 
> The card has two serial and one parallel ports.  Here's what I've been
> able to get the PROM to tell me about it: