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Date:      Tue, 13 Feb 2001 10:31:44 -0500
From:      "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
To:        <mark@summersault.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: configuring irqs for a dial out modem
Message-ID:  <002301c095d2$13e43e90$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
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> Here's some parts of "dmesg" that might be interesting:
>
> sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
> sio0: type 8250
> sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
>
> I cross referenced this information with the a report from the BIOS. It
> reports that it finds a  "Simple COMM Controller" with an irq that
> varies, though it was never 4, to match above.

If you've got serial ports on the motherboard (and enabled in the BIOS),
then these should come up without problems.  I'd worry about getting this to
work first.  (Then you know that your BIOS and FreeBSD are talking.)

> However, the irq it
> reported would always match this other line in "dmesg":
>
> pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x118183 dev=0x4000) at 10.0 irq 7
>
> So at that point I was convinced that the "pci0" entry was in fact my
> modem card, and it was just a matter of getting the irqs aligned.



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