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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.2-CURRENT sio silo overflow (was: Re: 2.1.5-RELEASE sio silo overflows?)
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 17:09:58 -0700
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To: Ian Pallfreeman <ip@mcc.ac.uk>
Ian Pallfreeman wrote:
> sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa
> sio1: type 16450
^^^^^
> sio2 at 0x3e8-0x3ef irq 4 on isa
> sio2: type 16550A
^^^^^^
Since both of these serial ports are on the same ISA add-on card, does
it not strike you as extremely strange that one of them is probing as a
16450? Either it really *is* a 16450 and you've been ripped-off or this
is a serial card that's giving FreeBSD's sio probe routines some
difficult.
I assume you've tried the most obvious solution in swapping the serial
card for a completely different make and model? The silly things are
certainly a lot cheaper than hair transplants.
--
- Jordan Hubbard
President, FreeBSD Project