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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!emba-news.uvm.edu!sadye!wollman From: wollman@sadye (Garrett Wollman) Subject: Re: 386BSD - 8250 com ports Message-ID: <1992Jul24.004516.6295@uvm.edu> Sender: news@uvm.edu Organization: University of Vermont, EMBA Computer Facility References: <1992Jul23.125510.4250@ulrik.uio.no> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 00:45:16 GMT Lines: 17 In article <1992Jul23.125510.4250@ulrik.uio.no> toreh@bootes.sds.no (Tore Haraldsen) writes: >The com driver (i386/isa/com.c) supplied with 386BSD seems to have >support only for the "modern" chips, 16540 & 16550. The result is, it >locks up my com ports of the "old" kind, 8250. Anyone got a "better" >driver for the com ports? Hmmm... I've got an 8250, and it works just fine. (The machine's built-in 16450 died, so we plugged in a card... and I *still* insist on running SLIP over it.) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman = wollman@emba.uvm.edu = UVM is welcome to my opinions = uvm-gen!wollman = That's what being alive is all about. No deity, no higher goal exists, than to bring joy to another person. - Elf Sternberg