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From: martin@bi-link.owl.de (Martin Husemann)
Subject: Re: Question about ns16550 serial ports
Keywords: 16550 serial
References: <9320115.12105@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
Organization: IN - individual network, Ostwestfalen-Lippe, FRG
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1993 18:15:32 GMT
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janj@acci.com.au (Jan Jaeger) writes:

>I have a card with 8 16550 chips on it, and am trying to get this
>to work on 386bsd.  All seems to be working fine except that the
>interrupts do not seem to come back from the card.

Have you enabled the interrupts? My 8 port card (2 x AST 4 port on one
board) needs 0x80 written to two ports (can't remember which) before
it will generate any interrupt.


Martin
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