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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: New serial ports not recognised
Date: 3 May 1996 19:03:31 GMT
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csdalton@tcd.ie (Colin Dalton) writes:

>The BIOS recognises the extra ports, but FreeBSD comes back with "sio2 not
>found at 2e8" (or whatever the correct address for COM3 is).
>
>Windows 95 "sort of" recognises the ports, but fails to dial out on a modem
>connected to COM4.

Smells like an interrupt problem.  FreeBSD only successfully probes
sio ports if interrupts are working correctly.

-- 
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. ;-)