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From: jun@wolfox.gsl.net (Jun John Wu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: PCMCIA support?
Date: 27 Feb 1996 18:47:27 GMT
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Sender: jun@ (Jun John Wu)
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Hi, all

	I solved the X11 start up problem, it was due to the mouse device not
in the kernel. Now I am trying to figure out why the kernel could not find
any serial port, or modem. The machine is a Compaq LTE Elite laptop. One PCMCIA
slot has 3COM EtherLink III card, that works fine. the other PCMCIA slot has
US Robotics Courier 28,800 card. In addition, the COM1 port is free.

	Under normal Windows or Windows 95, the OS finds both the cards and the
COM1 port without problem, the address for COM1 is normal, 03F8 - 03FF, IRQ 4.

	But under FreeBSD, the GENERIC kernel can not find any SIO port,

Feb 26 11:50:33 tiger /kernel: sio0 not found at 0x3f8
Feb 26 11:50:33 tiger /kernel: sio1 not found at 0x2f8
Feb 26 11:50:33 tiger /kernel: sio2 not found at 0x3e8
Feb 26 11:50:33 tiger /kernel: sio3 not found at 0x2e8

	Even if I remove the modem card from PCMCIA slot, the result is still the same.

	However, the kernel can find the onboard parallel port.

	Anyone has any ideas where to look to get the two serial ports available?

	Thanks.

Jun