From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 4 10:25:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA14680 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 4 Aug 1996 10:25:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from synwork.com (root@synwork.com [199.3.234.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA14675 for ; Sun, 4 Aug 1996 10:25:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from synwork.com (flaq@ns1.synwork.com [204.120.255.17]) by synwork.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA01756; Sun, 4 Aug 1996 12:25:19 -0500 Date: Sun, 4 Aug 1996 12:25:19 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem Adding Serial Port In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 3 Aug 1996, Doug White wrote: > Let me return here for a moment: > > On Sat, 3 Aug 1996, Mike wrote: > > > > > > > I just bought an SIIG i/o card with dual 16550 serial ports and a parallel > > > > > > port. I already have com1 and com2 with base addresses 3f8 and 2f8 > > > > > > and IRQ's 4 and 3 respectively. I enabled ONLY com3 on the new card base > > > > > > address 3e8 and IRQ 5 and plugged it in. No matter what I try, FreeBSD > > > > > > will not see the new card. > > Have you tried using a different port address? Are you sure that the > jumper settings are correct? > > > > I guess I'd better see the dmesg and kernel configuration then. > > These check out, except for: > > > options GATEWAY > > This was deprecated in 2.1.0 and later. Use the sysconfig option instead. > > > device sio0 at isa? port "IO_COM1" tty irq 4 vector siointr > > device sio1 at isa? port "IO_COM2" tty irq 3 vector siointr > > device sio2 at isa? port "IO_COM3" tty irq 5 vector siointr > ^^^^^^^ > just change the marked portion to the base address and recompile. > > > I would appreciate any help you can offer! > > We're trying. > > Is there any reason you need sio2? Have you tried a different serial > card? > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > After searching the archives, this seems to be an old problem. This new card works fine on a DOS based machine. I am confident that the card itself is good and 100% positive that the jumper settings are correct. Mike ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ Syn-Work Media, Inc. | WWW Development & Hosting | Life Safety http://www.synwork.com | Systems Integration | CCTV mike@synwork.com | Voice/Data/Fiber | Access Control Flaq on IRC | Dukane Distributor | BICSI/RCDD ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~