Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 19:05:21 -0500 (EST) From: Gardner Bell <gbell72@rogers.com> To: antennex@hotmail.com, petermatulis@yahoo.ca, ertr1013@student.uu.se Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: no serial port: "configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs" Message-ID: <20060315000521.89844.qmail@web88004.mail.re2.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060314175531.E43BD16A44D@hub.freebsd.org>
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--- Jack Stone wrote:
> >--- Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 01:15:57PM -0500, Peter wrote:
> > > > I cannot get FreeBSD 6.0 to recognize my serial port. I am
> using
> > > the
> > > > ASUS K8V-X SE motherboard[1]. It only has serial port but
> dmesg
> > > > suggests there are two:
> > > >
> > > > sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
> > > > sio0: port may not be enabled
> > > > sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags
> > > 0x10 on
> > > > acpi0
> > > > sio0: type 16550A
> > > > sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
> > > > sio1: port may not be enabled
> > >
> > > It looks like FreeBSD found one serial port (si0) and looked for
> > > another
> > > (sio1) but didn't find it (which is not surprising if it is not
> > > there).
> > >
> > > >
> > > > In the end I have no port:
> > > >
> > > > $ ls -lh /dev/cua*
> > > > crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 0, 42 Mar 13 03:59 /dev/cuad0
> > > > crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 0, 43 Mar 13 03:59
> /dev/cuad0.init
> > > > crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 0, 44 Mar 13 03:59
> /dev/cuad0.lock
> > >
> > > And one port (the one detected as sio0) appears in /dev also
> > > according to
> > > the above.
> > >
> > > There is one serial port and FreeBSD finds it.
> > >
> > > I don't see the problem.
> >
> >Ok thank you. My conclusion was based on the combination of the
> >error-like messages ("port may not be enabled") and my experience
> with
> >FreeBSD (that it assigns /dev/cuaa{0,1} to its serial devices).
> >
>
> I'm having the same problem with new SATA Abit MBs. No matter what I
> do to
> tweak the BIOS, I get your identical message. There is no active
> serial
> port, even though I added a serial port card.
>
> Really need it too as my APC UPSes need that serial port.
>
> I've seen this problem posted before and wonder if anyone finally
> found a
> solution?
>
> Regards,
> Jack
>
I ran into this message the other day after recompiling my kernel
without "device atpic". Try adding that to your kernel configuration
file to see if it solves your problems.
Gardner Bell
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