Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 16:49:23 +0100 From: "Grant Schofield" <gschofield@wiac.iol.ie> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Mouse problems sio0 & sio2 Message-ID: <002d01bdc92d$74c7bbc0$c8307dc2@default>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_002A_01BDC935.D22917C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, I'm having a hell of a time getting FreeBSD to find my serial ports. I = have tried everything in the manuals, changed IRQ's, etc., etc., ad = nauseum! My BIOS says there are 2 mouse ports, COM1 and COM3, however, = when FBSD boots I get sio0 not found at 0x3f8 sio1 not found at 0x2f8 I presume FBSD acts in the same way as DOS, i.e. you need a serial port = installed [COM1] in order to run the mouse.=20 not suprisingly I then get mse0 not found at 0x23c I have tried everything I can think of. My machine uses PCI, the mouse = is a no name brand, and I can't find any info about the board that might = help.=20 Has anybody any suggestions? ------=_NextPart_000_002A_01BDC935.D22917C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=3Dtext/html;charset=3Diso-8859-1 = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META content=3D'"MSHTML 4.72.2106.6"' name=3DGENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>Hi,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>I'm having a hell of a time getting = FreeBSD to=20 find my serial ports. I have tried everything in the manuals, changed = IRQ's,=20 etc., etc., ad nauseum! My BIOS says there are 2 mouse ports, COM1 and = COM3,=20 however, when FBSD boots I get</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV>sio0 not found at 0x3f8<BR>sio1 not found at 0x2f8<BR><BR><FONT=20 color=3D#000000 size=3D2>I</FONT><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2> presume = FBSD acts in=20 the same way as DOS, i.e. you need a serial port installed [COM1] in = order =20 to run the mouse. <BR><BR>not suprisingly I then get<BR><BR>mse0 not = found at=20 0x23c<BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>I have tried everything I can think = of. My=20 machine uses PCI, the mouse is a no name brand, and I can't find any = info about=20 the board that might help. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>Has anybody any=20 suggestions?</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_002A_01BDC935.D22917C0-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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