From owner-freebsd-questions  Mon Nov  8  0:34:16 1999
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from tardis.patho.gen.nz (tardis.patho.gen.nz [203.97.2.226])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E27B1518E
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Mon,  8 Nov 1999 00:34:12 -0800 (PST)
	(envelope-from jabley@tardis.patho.gen.nz)
Received: (from jabley@localhost)
	by tardis.patho.gen.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA13746
	for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 21:34:11 +1300 (NZDT)
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 21:34:10 +1300
From: Joe Abley <jabley@patho.gen.nz>
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: ThinkPad 380, sio doesn't do much
Message-ID: <19991108213409.A31181@patho.gen.nz>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i
X-Files: the Truth is Out There
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

I have a ThinkPad 380/2635 and I'll be damned if I can get the
built-in serial port to do anything for me.

I'm running FreeBSD-3.3-PAO, and have sio configured like this:

  device sio0 at isa? port "IO_COM1" flags 0x10 tty irq 4 vector siointr
  device sio1 at isa? disable port "IO_COM2" tty irq 3

I've also tried

  device sio0 at isa? port "IO_COM1" flags 0x10 tty irq 4

which made no difference to how the port didn't work. dmesg shows:

  sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa
  sio0: type 16550A

I have a Xircom REM56G-100 pcmcia adapter which functions very well as a
modem, appearing on sio1.

I found a few old messages from someone else complaining that the
ThinkPad uart lies dormant until awoken by some nasty proprietary
IBM win98 driver, which clearly I'm not running here. I am hoping
that this is not the case, and there is some magic I can do to
make everything better.

I don't suppose anybody else has a ThinkPad 380 working well under
FreeBDS 3.3, and can share some tips with me?

Also, I was wondering -- does PAO buy me anything on a TP380? Or would
regular 3.3 work just fine? PCIC on this machine reports itself as
"Cirrus Logic PD6729/6730 PC-Card Controller".


Joe


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message