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From: postmaster@ccm.com (Steven M. TenHoor)
Subject: Com Ports on a VP
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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 14:48:35 GMT

I tried (and quite unsuccessfully) to get FreeBSD up and running on a 
IBM-ValuePoint DX2/66 (16 Meg Ram / 500 Meg Disk).  The bootup process 
recognizes sio00 and sio01 but I can never access them, the devices never show 
up (no com00 or com01 either). Is this a problem or am I being stupid?