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From: tom@tarush.chattanooga.net (Tom Rush)
Subject: Re: Problems with Com Ports
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Date: Sun, 23 Jul 1995 14:02:31 GMT
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Christine Maxwell (kaila@crl.com) wrote:
: In attempting to put up a bbs under FreeBSD to test the software, I
: installed a second i/o card (magic i/o) set to offer com3 on irq 9 and
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: com4 on irq5, and lpt0 on irq 7. The bios seems to recognize them all
^^^^^^^^^^^^
: perfectly, and the printer port is working under FreeBSD. The problem
: is, that FreeBSD isn't recognizing either of the two com ports.
Unless you made a typo here, it would appear that the irq's are switched.
From /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC :
device sio2 at isa? port "IO_COM3" tty irq 5 vector siointr
device sio3 at isa? port "IO_COM4" tty irq 9 vector siointr
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Tom Rush
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