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Date:      Fri, 4 Jun 2010 20:47:24 -0700
From:      Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com>
To:        Mayo Jordanov <mayo@oyam.ca>
Cc:        Andy Farkas <chuzzwassa@gmail.com>, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kern/147082: [uart] Serial ports unusable
Message-ID:  <AANLkTikkER16xZvbra7Qy_mlQGRPzAQg7IoLSBX0ON1m@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <694FC835-8D12-402C-941D-CADFBE8D5961@oyam.ca>
References:  <201006041900.o54J0DmB099738@freefall.freebsd.org> <AANLkTilkl5Jzk86lgsHAoqy0mVktoJsLPOC6l6YZOYXu@mail.gmail.com> <694FC835-8D12-402C-941D-CADFBE8D5961@oyam.ca>

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On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Mayo Jordanov <mayo@oyam.ca> wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. I have all my ports mapped directly as you hav=
e, and I also tried setting the bios to reserve the IRQs so nothing else ge=
ts to use them.
>
> Thank you for the suggestions and keeping an eye on this.
> mayo
>
> On 2010-06-04, at 16:43 , Andy Farkas wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 5:00 AM, Mayo Jordanov <mayo@oyam.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>> =A0One more report, I loaded FreeBSD 6.4 on this machine, and the seria=
l =3D
>>> =A0ports work without any problems.=3D
>>>
>>
>> Hi Mayo,
>>
>> You might remember that I was having this problem as well, no output on
>> serial ports, on my HP ProLiant ML 100 box.
>>
>> I solved it by going into BIOS and explicitly setting the COM ports to
>> 3F8/4 and 2F8/3. They were set to AUTO before. As a side note, when set
>> to AUTO, COM2 did not show up in dmesg.
>>
>> What are your BIOS settings?

Was this an upgrade or a fresh install? If it was an upgrade, what
version of FreeBSD did you upgrade from? Can you please provide your
device.hints file?
Thanks,
-Garrett



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