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From: bcaruthe@us.oracle.com (Bruce Caruthers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: [FreeBSD/XFree86] Still can't get serial ports to work
Date: 3 Sep 1994 07:34:14 GMT
Organization: Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores, Calif.
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Message-ID: <3498tm$i46@dcsun4.us.oracle.com>
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I posted a couple of months ago about this, and got a few replies, which
fell off after a few "Yes, I tried that" and such.
My system:
amd486dx2/66, ISA, 8MB RAM, Adaptec1542cf
Maxtor 7345AT (345MB IDE) (DOS), Compaq 1GB SCSI (DOS+FreeBSD)
Archive Viper QIC-150, #9 GXE S3 (928), KFC 17" SVGA
generic 9600/14400 modem (DOS COM2, BSD sio1)
Combined card with: 2S, 1P, 1G, IDE, FDC
MouseSystems OmniMouse II (2-button, MS-compatible, no switch
that I could locate)
FreeBSD 1.1R + XFree86 2.? (both off of BSDisc v1#2)
Basically, as best I can tell, neither of the serial ports on the
combination card are being properly recognized. One of them is
recognized at bootup, along with the modem, but then neither of the
card ports seem to work. The absolute best I have been able to get
for my mouse on sio0 (/dev/tty00, 28, 1 or 0) is (with kermit or cu)
to get a hangup if I click the mouse.
I looked at various kernel options I could see, having to do with
"mouse" or "sio" or "serial" and turned on bidirectional, but didn't
really see anything helpful. I have read the sio man page, and tried
the settings given there, as well as the settings reported from my
CMOS for the addresses and IRQ's for the two serial ports.
Any help would be incredibly appreciated, since until I can get this
worked out, my PC is an overglorified terminal, using DOS ProComm Plus
1.1b and the modem.
Thanks for any help,
-bkc
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"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality." (Jules de Gaultier)
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Bruce Caruthers bcaruthe@Oracle.Com bkc@cs.Princeton.Edu
"To get the attention of a large animal, be it an elephant or a bureaucracy,
it helps to know what part of it feels pain. Be very sure, though, that
you want its full attention." -- Kelvin Throop, "Analog" Dec 1984