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From: wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl (Wilko Bulte)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: /dev/sio01: Device not configured --- Solution.
Keywords: sio com shitty-modem
Message-ID: <wilko.742466103@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 12 Jul 93 08:35:03 GMT
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jl@argon.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Joshua Lackey) writes:


>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.

If it is of any consolation: same problem for me. It looks as if it is
dependend on a 'hard' or 'soft' boot (ctl-alt-del type reset). Maybe
the probe stuff has some timing/speed quirks? Every now and then 
the sio1 is correctly recognized.

Wilko

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