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From: matthaei@kwcom.in-berlin.de (Olaf Matthaei)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Modem at com4 under dos can't be seen by FREEBSD at run time?
Date: 27 Jul 1995 17:20:25 +0200
Organization: Public access FreeBSD system, 15711 Koenigs Wusterhausen, DE
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chung chun pang (cpchung1@ie.cuhk.hk) wrote:
: Hello,

Hi,

: 
: 	I have a modem installed to com4 under dos (internal modem) but
: freebsd cannot see it (sio2 not found and sio3 not found). seyon can't
: see it either, what should I do?

you MUST set the irq from sio2 to 5 
                          sio3 to 9.

FreeBSD can't handle non-irq serial ports!