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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!metro!physiol.su.OZ.AU!john From: john@physiol.su.OZ.AU (John Mackin) Subject: [FreeBSD] Serial port probe problems Message-ID: <1994Jul12.062201.8331@physiol.su.OZ.AU> Followup-To: poster Organization: The Land of Summer's Twilight Date: Tue, 12 Jul 1994 06:22:01 GMT Lines: 29 I'm having a bit of trouble getting my FreeBSD 1.1.5.1R kernel to recognize my serial ports at probe time. I've tried a number of different no-name 16450 clone-based I/O cards, and what will happen is that on any given boot, either none, one or both of sio[01] will be seen by the probe. Doing a hard reset prior to the boot _seems_ to increase the chance that one or more of the ports will be seen, but since it's semi-random, I can't be too sure about that. Hitherto I have not been actually using the serial ports, but I do have a real need for them, and it's about time for me to try to solve this one. Any ideas anyone has would be greatly appreciated. My hardware is a 386DX-33, 387 (both Intel), DTK PEM-3310 cache motherboard with DTK BIOS, 8MB, WD MFM controller & two drives, 3C503, generic VGA and I/O cards. The problem occurs equally with a GENERICAH kernel and with kernels I build myself (no surprise there). E-Mailed replies would be very helpful because our news feed is a bit clagged at the moment. I will summarize, as usual. Thanks in advance. -- John Mackin <john@physiol.su.oz.au> Knox's box is a 286. Fox in Socks does hacks and tricks Knox's box is hard to fix. To fix poor Knox's box for kicks.