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From: kaila@crl.com (Christine Maxwell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problems with Com Ports
Date: 23 Jul 1995 12:00:03 -0700
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Tom Rush (tom@tarush.chattanooga.net) wrote:
: Christine Maxwell (kaila@crl.com) wrote:
: : In attempting to put up a bbs under FreeBSD to test the software, I
: : installed a second i/o card (magic i/o) set to offer com3 on irq 9 and
: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: : com4 on irq5, and lpt0 on irq 7. The bios seems to recognize them all
: ^^^^^^^^^^^^
: : perfectly, and the printer port is working under FreeBSD. The problem
: : is, that FreeBSD isn't recognizing either of the two com ports.
: Unless you made a typo here, it would appear that the irq's are switched.
: From /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC :
: device sio2 at isa? port "IO_COM3" tty irq 5 vector siointr
: device sio3 at isa? port "IO_COM4" tty irq 9 vector siointr
Thank you... I had forgotten to change the IRQ's in my config
file... i'll try that now and hope it works :)
Thanks again for helping... it should be really easy for me to stop
taking these stupid pills any day now :)
Christine