Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 22:03:18 PST From: "the beavix" <beavix@hotmail.com> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Serial port oddnesses in -CURRENT Message-ID: <19981108060318.1627.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Hi guys, I've got an Intel PR440FX dual-PPro motherboard, and am having some problems regarding serial ports in -CURRENT (which I built 3 days ago). Nov 8 13:53:34 ether /kernel: sio1: 1 more silo overflow (total 121) That's the 121st message I've got so far, and pppd has only been running for <10 minutes. I think I might have traced the problem, here's a quick snippet from dmesg: sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa sio0: type 8250 sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa sio1: type 16550A Now what puzzles me if that any serial port should complain, it should be sio0, not sio1. What is similarly strange is that sio1 is not being used, it's been disabled in the BIOS. All I am running is an external Banksia 56k modem (connecting at 33k6), which hangs off of sio0 on the board. For one reason or another, BIOS won't let me set sio0 to use COM1 (even though I have a PS/2 mouse), so I'm stuck with COM2 for sio0. sio1 has been set to disabled in the BIOS, and there's nothing hanging off of the connector. Here I am puzzled. You can't use an external modem on a serial port if it's disabled, so why am I getting sio1 errors when the modem is using sio0? I've tried disabling sio0 and using sio1 from the BIOS, but this hasn't worked either. sio1 can take COM2 if sio0 is disabled; and when I try this, cu just sits there with "Connected" but doesn't take input. The modem doesn't seem to respond. Any ideas? Info would be greatly appreciated! -- beav. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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