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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.cps.udayton.edu!news.engr.udayton.edu!blackbird.afit.af.mil!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!netsys.com!nntp-hub3.barrnet.net!voder!nsc!news From: Prasad Kongara <prasadk@berlioz.nsc.com> Subject: Re: Serial Ports not found Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <315059BD.41C67EA6@berlioz.nsc.com> Sender: news@nsc.nsc.com (netnews maintenance) Nntp-Posting-Host: kells.nsc.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jai, arunr, prasadk Organization: National Semiconductor References: <Do0KHK.KKt@berlioz.nsc.com> <4ii9dn$mog@uriah.heep.sax.de> <314DD7CE.41C67EA6@berlioz.nsc.com> <314f3661.0@news.uni-konstanz.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 19:17:17 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.4 sun4m) Lines: 41 Pascal Gienger wrote: > > Prasad Kongara (prasadk@berlioz.nsc.com) wrote: > : > > : > jai@berlioz.nsc.com (Jaisimha Durgam) writes: > : > > : > > Hi! I seem to be hopelessly stuck at the installation step. The > : > > kernel will not see sio0-3 (The message I get is sio0 not found at > : > > 0x2e8 etc) > : > > : I got the same problem. Strangely, the problem went away > : when I removed the Ethernet card 3COM590. I plugged it back, > : the problem showed up again. I am planning to change the > : ethernet card. Did anybody has similar experience with this > : card? Anyway to fix it? > > Which IRQ does your Ethernet Card use ? If it collides with your sio > interrupt, sio won't be seen... And for Jaisihma: Get a program > like "M$ System Diagnose msd.exe" or something like that to see what > IRQ and hardware addresses your sio ports are using. It may also > be shown on system start (power-on). Maybe IRQs or Addresses are > different than the usual ones. You'll have to type "-c" at boot > prompt then and change the sio devices to the right IRQ a/o hardware > addresses. > > Pascal > -- > Pascal.Gienger Zentrale Rechner Rechenzentrum Universitaet Konstanz > @uni-konstanz.de Voice: +49 7531 16074 > Fax : +49 7531 20370 I did check the IRQs and addresses. They are not conflicting and I also made sure that kernel configuration file has the correct addresses and IRQs. Anyway, I fixed my problem. This is how I fixed it. I have moved my ethernet card from one PCI slot to another PCI slot. The problem disappeared! I am curious to know why this happened. The PCI slot I was using is a shared PCI/ISA slot. I moved it to a PCI only slot. - Prasad