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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:3677 comp.os.386bsd.bugs:1084 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!caen!destroyer!ncar!noao!amethyst!organpipe.uug.arizona.edu!argon!jl From: jl@argon.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Joshua Lackey) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: /dev/sio01: Device not configured --- Solution. Summary: How I made sio work with my lousy modem Keywords: sio com shitty-modem Message-ID: <jl.742239288@argon> Date: 9 Jul 93 17:34:48 GMT Sender: news@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu Organization: University of Arizona - Tucson, Arizona Lines: 49 Greetings! Thanks to all who replied to my posts. I also want to thank everyone involved with the latest patch kit and sio!!! I correctly configured my kernel and re-compiled. device sio00 at isa? port "IO_COM1" tty irq 4 vector siointr device sio01 at isa? port "IO_COM2" tty irq 3 vector siointr device sio02 at isa? port "IO_COM3" tty irq 5 vector comintr #device sio03 at isa? port "IO_COM4" tty irq 9 vector siointr Yet at boot time, the probe would fail to recognize /dev/sio01. ... sio0 <16450> at 0x3f8 irq 4 on isa sio2 <16550A> at 0x3e8 irq 5 on isa fd0 drives... Where is sio1??? When I try to use /dev/sio01, I get a device not configured error. Now I have run in to this problem before, it happened to me with the last version of cgd's driver. I correctly installed it, but it would never recognize my modem. It would find my mouse just fine along with my terminal. When I switched the modem and the mouse port, it would still find the mouse. Obviously, the problem was with my cheap modem. I bought the cheapest 57.6k I could find... The stock com ports work. Not well, but they work. So I knew that there must be some way to get sio to recognize my modem. So I went in to /sys/i386/isa/sio.c and looked around. What eventually worked for me was just to have the probe code always return a 1. I realize that this is a hack, but now I have the _sweetest_ slip connection! I just make sure that any sio devices that I specify in my config are actually there. I don't think there will be much of a problem beyond that. I decided to post this just in case anyone else bought a supreme-el-cheapo modem and can't get it to work with sio. Just mail me and I will try to help. -- jl@gas.uug.arizona.edu ---------------------- jl@axis.tucson.az.us The golden age of mathematics--that was not the age of Euclid, it is ours. C. J. Keyser