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Date:      Mon, 12 Jan 1998 13:09:13 +1030
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        dmaddox@scsn.net
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 16650 Support(?) 
Message-ID:  <199801120239.NAA00991@word.smith.net.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 11 Jan 1998 15:06:19 CDT." <19980111150619.48677@scsn.net> 

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>     I recently bought a 16C650-based LavaPort ISA card to support the
> 230,400 bps capability of my ISDN modem.  It works fine under W95, but
> does _not_ work fine under FBSD-current.
> 
>     I am able to talk to the modem only if I set the port speed to
> 9600 bps.  Any other speed fails to talk at all.  I assume that 9600bps
> is the default speed of the chip, and the sio driver is failing to set
> the speed correctly.

Set the port speed on *what*?  Does the card use the standard Windows 
COM driver, or does it have its own?

>     Looking at sio.c, it would appear that the driver is intended to
> work with 16650s, since there is a flag specifically intended for use
> with the 16650's larger FIFO (flags 0x20000).

Correct.

>     Am I missing a necessary step to make this thing work, or is there
> something non-standard about this card?  Anybody else have any experience
> with the LavaPort ISA (aka LavaLink-650)?

Which 16650 does the card use?  (ie. what are the markings on the 16650 
part?)

> sio2 at 0x3e8-0x3ef irq 12 flags 0x20000 on isa
> sio2: type ST16650A

It looks pretty happy with that.

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