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From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi ASAMI)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Modem not detected on FreeBSD bootup
Date: 26 Aug 1994 11:08:55 GMT
Organization: CS Div. - EECS, The University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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In-reply-to: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu's message of 23 Aug 1994 03:02:11 PST
In article <33ckvj$keh@agate.berkeley.edu>
jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
* >The kernel by default is looking for sio3 at IRQ9, of all places.
* >You'll have to either reconfigure your card or build yourself
* >a new kernel with things at the right places.
*
* Well, it's looking for those ports at the other IRQs since COM1/COM2
* tend to clash IRQs with COM3/COM4 otherwise.. But you're right,
* it should be in the FAQ, though I also have to say that this is the
* first time I've heard the question asked! Not very frequent.. :)
Jordan, I've answered this question several times in the past month on
the newsgroups and the mailing lists. I can attest that this *is*
pretty frequent! :)
Now only if we can get someone to write a "sio gotcha's in 1.1.5"
FAQ....
Satoshi