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From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Probe to determine 16550/8250/16450??
Date: 8 Aug 1993 09:53:16 GMT
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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marty@TC.Cornell.EDU (Marty Faltesek) writes:

>Does anyone have a utility the reports what type of 
>UART is installed?  I understand DOS has such a utility,
>but my system is fully 386bsd and I don't even have
>DOS floppies.  

If you have patchkit 0.2.4 installed, and have single port cards,
you should take sio.c as the comdriver. It reports the UART you have.
If you have a multiport card, the probe code *can* be broken. See
the various patches that have been posted.

>Marty

-Guido
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