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From: phil@rivendell.apana.org.au (Phil Homewood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and AST4-Port?
Date: 15 Aug 1994 14:46:47 GMT
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tdwyer@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au (Terry Dwyer) had this to say:
Phil Homewood (phil@rivendell.apana.org.au) wrote:
: Nora E. Etukudo (nora@eeubln.IN-Berlin.DE) wrote:
: : My AST4-Port compatible serial card won't work (even recognized)
: : under FreeBSD-1.1.5.1-RELEASE.
: [...]
: : device sio4 at isa? port 0x2a0 tty irq 5 flags 0x501 vector siointr
: : device sio5 at isa? port 0x2a8 tty flags 0x501 vector siointr
: : device sio6 at isa? port 0x2b0 tty flags 0x501 vector siointr
: : device sio7 at isa? port 0x2b8 tty flags 0x501 vector siointr
: [...]
: : sio4: master device 5 irq not configured
: : sio4 not found at 0x2a0
: Try changing all the flags above to 0x401.
: The '4'(or '5' in your existing config) is the number of the
: 'master' port on the card (ie. it should refer to sio4).
No, that is not quite right. (sio4-sio7) The master port is the last
port on the card, and is numbered according to the total number of
ports in your machine. From the above, I assume Nora has four other
ports stating at sio0-sio3 configured (I missed the original post),
so the flags line should read 'flags 0x701', the master port being
the 8th of all ports installed, numbered from 0 to 7.
: Also (I may be wrong here), I have a funny feeling that the 'vector siointr'
: should ONLY appear on the master (sio4) line, and not on sio[567].
Yep, that's right, along with the 'irq 5'. Someone else had a problem
with the irq, vector and siointr on the line for the first port (of the
card), it was fixed by moving it to the last line.
Here's my config, 2 standard comm ports and 4 AST ports.
#Standard comm ports
device sio0 at isa? port "IO_COM1" tty irq 4 vector siointr
device sio1 at isa? port "IO_COM2" tty irq 3 vector siointr
#AST 4 port card
device sio2 at isa? port 0x2a0 tty flags 0x501
device sio3 at isa? port 0x2a8 tty flags 0x501
device sio4 at isa? port 0x2b0 tty flags 0x501
device sio5 at isa? port 0x2b8 tty irq 5 flags 0x501 vector siointr
: man sio for exact descriptions.
: Phil.
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