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From: brian@sun1.claremont.com (Brian Childs)
Subject: FreeBSD, How do you get SIO to work?
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I just upgraged from 386bsd to FreeBSD-1.0 EPISILON.  Everything works great,
except the SIO driver.

I couldn't get SIO to work under the 0.2.4 PK, so I figured maybe it would be
easier under FreeBSD, but obviously it was not.

I created the necessary entries in /dev for SIO.

When I boot, it looks like the probe works because it recognizes my 2 serial
ports.  When I try to 'tip' to my modem, however, it hangs for about 2 min and
then I get a 'link down' error message.

This is how they are configured:
device		sio0	at isa? port "IO_COM1" tty irq 4 vector siointr
device		sio1	at isa? port "IO_COM2" tty irq 3 vector siointr

I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

Thanks in advance,
Brian
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