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To: "Wyatt Nordstrom" <wyattn@nortel.ca>
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Subject: Re: help - BSD not recognizing serial ports 
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> 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
         ^^^^^^^^ 
[.....]

Perhaps you should enable them !  Boot -c.

> Thanks for any assistance.
>  - Wyatt

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