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Subject: Re: usb serial lockup
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At 07:17 AM 11/10/2006, Vince wrote:
>Hi All,
>         I have a bit of a wierd problem, My laptop has no serial ports, as is
>the norm these days, so i have a FTDI based usb serial connector which
>is very handy and works well. However, what i have found is that freebsd
>still detects a serial port anyway
>
>sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
>sio0: port may not be enabled

What happens if you disable the bogus port in /boot/device.hints ?
ie. add
hint.sio.0.disabled="1"

         ---Mike