Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 01:03:26 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Joe Abley <jabley@patho.gen.nz> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ThinkPad 380, sio doesn't do much Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911080102180.12797-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <19991108213409.A31181@patho.gen.nz>
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On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Joe Abley wrote: > I have a ThinkPad 380/2635 and I'll be damned if I can get the > built-in serial port to do anything for me. > > I'm running FreeBSD-3.3-PAO, and have sio configured like this: > > device sio0 at isa? port "IO_COM1" flags 0x10 tty irq 4 vector siointr > device sio1 at isa? disable port "IO_COM2" tty irq 3 > > I've also tried > > device sio0 at isa? port "IO_COM1" flags 0x10 tty irq 4 > > which made no difference to how the port didn't work. dmesg shows: > > sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa > sio0: type 16550A > > I have a Xircom REM56G-100 pcmcia adapter which functions very well as a > modem, appearing on sio1. > > I found a few old messages from someone else complaining that the > ThinkPad uart lies dormant until awoken by some nasty proprietary > IBM win98 driver, which clearly I'm not running here. I am hoping > that this is not the case, and there is some magic I can do to > make everything better. > > I don't suppose anybody else has a ThinkPad 380 working well under > FreeBDS 3.3, and can share some tips with me? > > Also, I was wondering -- does PAO buy me anything on a TP380? Or would > regular 3.3 work just fine? PCIC on this machine reports itself as > "Cirrus Logic PD6729/6730 PC-Card Controller". I was coplaining at the FreeBSDcon about my sio being broken, but if you look long enough on IBM's website you'll find MS-DOG binaries to toggle on/off the serial port instead of the infrared device. good luck, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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