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Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 13:13:26 -0500
From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
To: Darrel <levitch@iglou.com>
Subject: Re: serial card on RC2 , RC3
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On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:15:10AM -0500, Darrel wrote:
> Anyone know how to get serial cable working with StarTech "2 Port Native
> Express RS232 Serial Adapter Card with 16550 UART"?  It is part number
> PEX2S553.
> 
> In my kernel I tried this:
> 
> device puc
> device sio o
> ptions COM_MULTIPORT
> 
> in different variations.
> 
> Also I tried in /boot/device.hints:
> 
> hint.sio.2.flags="0x201"
> hint.sio.3.flags="0x201"
> 
> It is obviously a cheap card, but I do have one working in a msft
> 7 machine.
> 

Please post some more information about your system.  pciconf -lv and
dmesg would both help developers see why the card isn't detected.  If
your system has been up for a while you may be better off sending 
/var/run/dmesg.boot than the output of the dmesg program.

Regards,

Gary