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Date:      Wed, 31 Jul 1996 21:01:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Mike <flaq@synwork.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problem Adding Serial Port
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960731210025.264S-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960731213219.195A-100000@synwork.com>

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On Wed, 31 Jul 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.  I plugged the same card into another box with
> Win95 on it and it saw the additional serial port right away.  I did
> recompile my kernel to add support for sio2 before this episode even
> started.  Am I missing something?

Did you reset the settings for sio2 with -c?  

Did you make sure NOTHING else is using irq 5?  Not even unsupported
devices?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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