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Date:      Thu, 09 Jun 2005 13:24:37 -0700
From:      "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To:        maillist@brundoggy.com
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Loss of serial ports after upgrade. 
Message-ID:  <20050609202437.0C2E85D07@ptavv.es.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 Jun 2005 14:54:35 CDT." <20050609143719.O64199-100000@krynn.brundoggy.com> 

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> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 14:54:35 -0500 (CDT)
> From: maillist@brundoggy.com
> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I upgraded my 4.6 to 4.10 a while back and no longer have a sio0 or sio1.
> I've checked the BIOS and my kernel config has the proper lines.  Yesterday
> I cvsuped to 4.11 built and installed a new kernel and world, hoping that
> might kick it into remembering I have two serial ports, to no avail.
> 
> I booted a 4.6 kernel and low and behold I have my serial ports. But,
> obviously other problems have risen.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Current dmesg output:
> 
> FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #0: Wed Jun  8 14:35:30 CDT 2005
>     root@brundoggy.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/PALADINE
> Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
> CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.50GHz (1513.49-MHz 686-class CPU)
>   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf12  Stepping = 2
> 
> Features=0x3febfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM>
> real memory  = 1342160896 (1310704K bytes)
> config> di psm0
> config> di sio1
> config> di sio0

'di' is the disable command. These commands disable sio0 and sio1, so I
would not expect them to work or even be seen. The first command
disables the mouse, but you may want that.

It looks like you managed to add these lines to your /boot/kernel.conf
file. 
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634



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