From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 19 09:58:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA05163 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 09:58:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from bcarsde4.localhost (mailgate.nortel.ca [192.58.194.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA05149 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 09:58:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wyattn@nortel.ca) Message-Id: <199711191758.JAA05149@hub.freebsd.org> Received: from brtpsa05.us.nortel.com (actually 47.239.68.230) by bcarsde4.localhost; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 12:57:59 -0500 Received: from bnr.ca by brtpsa05.bnr.ca id <07781-0@brtpsa05.bnr.ca>; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 12:57:08 -0500 Date: 19 Nov 1997 12:57 EST To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Wyatt Nordstrom" Subject: help - BSD not recognizing serial ports Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am a newkid when it comes to BSD. I am installing BSD 2.2 on a second partition. I am able to boot and login as root or any other of the user names which have been set up. The problem is that my configuration does not recognize the serial ports. I am convinced that this is a controller problem. I have searched the FAQs without finding anything relevent to my particular problem. the output of "dmesg | grep sio" is sio0 not found at 0x3f8 sio1 not found at 0x2f8 sio2 disabled, not probed sio3 disabled, not probed The GENERIC config file is set too 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 device sio3 at isa? port "IO_COM4" tty irq 9 vector siointr I have a Amptron PM9200 i430TX mainboard. The following excerpts are from the mainboard doc onboard super multi-I/O chip supports 2-serial ports with 16550 fast UART compatable ... and Two High Speed Serial Ports (16550 UART Compatible) This is all I could find out about the serial controller. I have a request in for more documentation to Amptron, but I have not heard anything yet. I have used the W95 partition to verify that com1 and com2 are at 0x3f8 and 0x2f8. As for the IRQ, I have no clue. This is the only documentation I could find which seemed relevent. I have checked the serial port configuration against several people with BSD installed and we appear to have the same entries. Furthmore the FAQ provided me with the default serial settings, and it appears that I have the default settings. The question is what am I missing. I am at wits end. I believe the controller on the mainboard is either not recognized, or requires special settings. Is it possible to use this configuration? If not I would really appreciate info on the best way to proceed(probably purchasing and configuring a controller card). I would prefer to make the current configuration work if possible. Thanks for any assistance. - Wyatt