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Date:      Fri, 24 Jul 1998 12:37:11 PDT
From:      "Mike Del" <repenting@hotmail.com>
To:        grog@lemis.com, mike@smith.net.au
Cc:        repenting@hotmail.com, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: I am having problems getting Freebsd to find my com port.
Message-ID:  <19980724193712.7099.qmail@hotmail.com>

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>From mike@antipodes.cdrom.com Thu Jul 23 08:38:30 1998
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>Subject: Re: I am having problems getting Freebsd to find my com port.
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>Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 08:37:58 -0700
>From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
>
>> 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.
>
>-- 
>\\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
>\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
>\\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
>\\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com
>
>
>
Hey, well I don't need to do that. Because the patch worked :)
Thanks

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