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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can't access serial ports on laptop Date: 21 Oct 1995 12:14:42 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 23 Message-ID: <46akn2$gfc@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <813970820.23536@wollery.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Casper Boden-Cummins <casper@wollery.demon.co.uk> wrote: >I've installed FreeBSD 2.0-RELEASE #2 on a Hi-Grade Notino P54 portable (UK >made). Unfortunately, I can't read or write to the serial port. The message >returned is always: > <dsevice_name>: Device not configured > >At boot up, the system reports: > ... > sio0 at 0X3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa > sio0: type 16550A > sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa > sio1: type 16550A What exactly is <device_name> for you? It should be one of /dev/ttyd0, /dev/ttyd1, /dev/cuaa0, /dev/cuaa1. RTFM sio(4). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)