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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.cc.nctu.edu.tw!nctuccca.edu.tw!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: New serial ports not recognised Date: 3 May 1996 19:03:31 GMT Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4mdla3$hqu@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4m7juc$qa5@web3.tcd.ie> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 csdalton@tcd.ie (Colin Dalton) writes: >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. Smells like an interrupt problem. FreeBSD only successfully probes sio ports if interrupts are working correctly. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)