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Date:      Sat, 18 Jul 1998 20:56:17 -0500
From:      "Satwant" <wizkid11@xnet.com>
To:        "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   serial patch problemRe: Cant configure serial port.
Message-ID:  <199807190154.UAA12941@mail.xnet.com>

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I downloaded the serial patch from Lehey's home page, an dtried :

patch -p0 serial...

It gives following error messages:

Patching file /sys/i386/isa/sio.c using plan A

hunk # 1 failed at 489
hunk # 2 failed at 653

..
Hmm. ignoring trailing garbage.

What should I do to fix it ?
-Satwant.




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> From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
> To: Satwant <wizkid11@xnet.com>; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Cant configure serial port.
> Date: Wednesday, July 15, 1998 10:52 PM
> 
> On Wednesday, 15 July 1998 at 20:11:27 -0400, Satwant wrote:
> > On TECRA 550CDT (Toshiba laptop) I get "unable to configure sio1" at
> > reboot. The internal modem is connected to irq 3 & 9.
> 
> That can't be.  sio ports only connect to one IRQ.
> 
> > The section 5.3.7 on Handbook says..
> >
> > "if you have internal modem on COM4 and a serial port at COM2 you will
have
> > to change the IRQ of the modem to 2 (for obscure resaons IRQ 2 = IRQ 9
in
> > order to access it from FreeBSD)."
> >
> > How do you change the IRQ of the internal modem on a laptop.
> 
> That depends on the laptop.  First you need to establish what you
> really have.  How many serial ports (including the modem) does it
> have?  How are they configured?  What does dmesg say on boot?
> 
> Greg
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