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From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi ASAMI)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.1 and sio2 not found..
Date: 14 Aug 94 15:51:05
Organization: CS Div. - EECS, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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In-reply-to: jcroall@nyx10.cs.du.edu's message of 14 Aug 1994 14:49:25 -0400
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jcroall@nyx10.cs.du.edu (James Croall) writes:
* Hi.. I'm trying to run pretty much stock FreeBSD 1.1 kernel, but it
* dosen't seem to recognize my internal modem at 0x2f8, irq 3. It recognizes
* my first serial port, 0x3f8 irq 4 just fine. The internal modem works
* fine under DOS, SCO UNIX and Linux, so I figure it /should/ work fine
* with FreeBSD.. The internal modem appears to have a 16450 UART, if that
* makes any difference (but after looking at the sio drivers I don't think
* it does..) Anyway, any help would be appreciated! Thanks..
James,
Please take a look at the sio man page. Unlike DOS, FreeBSD doesn't
use irq 4/3 for sio2/3; it uses irq 5/9 by default.
If you change the modem's irq level to 5 or 9, it should work fine
(what I did to move my modem from sio1 to sio2).
Satoshi