Return to BSD News archive
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!hookup!interlog.com!morphos.com!daves From: daves@interlog.com (Davd Shadoff) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: FreeBSD fails to recognize my internal modem Date: Sat, 17 Dec 1994 23:12:31 Organization: Morphos Systens Inc. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <daves.1.00173613@interlog.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: morphos.interlog.com X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] I'm using an Intel 486DX2-66 VLB motherboard, a VLB I/O card for my first serial port, and a Zoltrix V.FC internal modem. I grabbed the 2.0-RELEASE/newer floppies (the ones dated Dec 5 around 1:00am), and installation went fine - almost. Upon reboot, the serial port which is my modem was not recognized, but the other one was. Yes, I verified IRQ's of every piece of hardware on the machine (I had been running ver 1.0 in the past on the same hardware, different motherboard). Yes, of course I disabled the second serial port on the VLB card, and ensured mo interrupt conflicts. Yes, I switched slots - several times. Yes, I tried swapping I/O port numbers of the modem and the other card's serial port. Yes, upon bootup, the hardware base address is recognized by the BIOS, and yes, it runs comm software fine if I boot from a DOS floppy with comm stuff on it. Everything I did worked just fine *except* the modem was never recognized by the bootup initialization procedure of FreeBSD (and thus, this sio device was never available to experiment with). (1) Is anyone else having this problem ? (2) Does anyone know *why* this is happening ? (ie. 16550's not always recognized ?) (3) Does anyone have a fix ?