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Date:      Thu, 23 Jul 1998 08:37:58 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Mike Del <repenting@hotmail.com>, FreeBSD mobile Mailing List <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: I am having problems getting Freebsd to find my com port. 
Message-ID:  <199807231537.IAA02748@antipodes.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 23 Jul 1998 16:06:11 %2B0930." <19980723160611.B17948@freebie.lemis.com> 

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> On Sunday, 19 July 1998 at  8:02:11 -0700, Mike Del wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >            I was wondering if anyone out there could help me with a
> > problem I am having with my com port. Ok, my bios says the the com port
> > is at 0x3f8. Then I booted off of a dos disk, and ran msd, this told me
> > that I did have a com port, and it was at the address 0x3f8.
> > I compiled a new kernel, adding a line for sio0, and rebooted. When
> > FreeBSD booted it says sio0 not found at 0x3f8. I am very confused buy
> > this, I then built a new kernel with the sio0 line but changed were the
> > port went to port? , This said basically the same thing, sio0 not found.
> > The computer is a toshiba satellite 315CDS. Anyone that can help me out
> > please do, I really would like to have my com port available :)
> 
> Did you get an answer on this?  If not, check
> http://www.lemis.com/serial-port-patch.html.  If that works, so will
> 2.2.7, probably.

Try setting the debug flag on the port first, and make sure you have 
the IRQ value for the port right.

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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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