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Date:      Sun, 4 Aug 1996 12:25:19 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike <flaq@synwork.com>
To:        dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problem Adding Serial Port
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960804122352.1720A-100000@synwork.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960803174723.3470B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>

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On Sat, 3 Aug 1996, Doug White wrote:

> Let me return here for a moment:
> 
> On Sat, 3 Aug 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.  
> 
> Have you tried using a different port address?  Are you sure that the
> jumper settings are correct?
> 
> > > I guess I'd better see the dmesg and kernel configuration then.
> 
> These check out, except for:
> 
> > options		GATEWAY
> 
> This was deprecated in 2.1.0 and later.  Use the sysconfig option instead.
> 
> > 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
>                                               ^^^^^^^
> just change the marked portion to the base address and recompile.
> 
> > I would appreciate any help you can offer!
> 
> We're trying.
> 
> Is there any reason you need sio2?  Have you tried a different serial
> card?
> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
> 
> 

After searching the archives, this seems to be an old problem.  This new
card works fine on a DOS based machine.  I am confident that the card
itself is good and 100% positive that the jumper settings are correct.

Mike

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