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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!ieunet!web3.tcd.ie!csdalton From: csdalton@tcd.ie (Colin Dalton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: New serial ports not recognised Date: 1 May 1996 12:03:24 GMT Organization: University of Dublin, Trinity College Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4m7juc$qa5@web3.tcd.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: alf2.tcd.ie X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #8 (NOV) Hi there, I recently got hold of an el-cheapo IO card, as I want an extra few serial ports. So I jumpered my original card to have its serial ports as COM3 and COM4 (ie 2e8 and 3e8), and changed the IRQs to 5 and 9. So, I disabled all but the serial ports on the new IO card, and stuck it in the machine with its default settings (com1/2 IRQ 3/4). I compiled a kernel with support for COM3/4 and off I went. The BIOS recognises the extra ports, but FreeBSD comes back with "sio2 not found at 2e8" (or whatever the correct address for COM3 is). Windows 95 "sort of" recognises the ports, but fails to dial out on a modem connected to COM4. Any ideas? -- Colin Dalton Mail: csdalton@alf2.tcd.ie - Web: http://alf2.tcd.ie/~csdalton/ - IRC: csd Where mathematics are true, they do not refer to reality; where they refer to reality, they are not true. - Albert Einstein.