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Date:      Mon, 31 Oct 2005 11:58:55 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Cc:        Jim Pazarena <fhard@ccstores.com>
Subject:   Re: multi-port serial devices
Message-ID:  <200510311158.55967.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <43640997.8000905@ccstores.com>
References:  <43640997.8000905@ccstores.com>

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On Saturday 29 October 2005 07:45 pm, Jim Pazarena wrote:
> just purchased Specialix SX modular high speed serial solution
>
> Specialix has changed their name (bought out by perhaps) to Perle.
>
> The FreeDSD 5.4 hardware compatibility list indicates
> "Specialix SI/XIO/SX" multiport serial cards, are supports (si(4) driver)
>
> however a compile of the kernel with  "device si" doesn't even
> discover the card. The supplied DOS utility to probe the device works
> as expected.
>
> Can anyone offer a suggestion.

Is this a PCI card?  If so, can you try adding it's device ID to the si(4) 
driver?  If you aren't sure how to do that, just post the output of pciconf 
-lv and include the section of info about your card.

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