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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.vader.org!news.demon.co.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: New serial ports not recognised Date: 7 May 1996 17:55:07 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4mnv9b$18f@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <4m7juc$qa5@web3.tcd.ie> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Colin Dalton (csdalton@tcd.ie) wrote: : Hi there, : I recently got hold of an el-cheapo IO card, as I want an extra few serial : ports. So I jumpered my original card to have its serial ports as COM3 and : COM4 (ie 2e8 and 3e8), and changed the IRQs to 5 and 9. : So, I disabled all but the serial ports on the new IO card, and stuck it in : the machine with its default settings (com1/2 IRQ 3/4). I compiled a kernel : with support for COM3/4 and off I went. : 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. : Any ideas? : -- : Colin Dalton : Mail: csdalton@alf2.tcd.ie - Web: http://alf2.tcd.ie/~csdalton/ - IRC: csd : Where mathematics are true, they do not refer to reality; where they refer : to reality, they are not true. - Albert Einstein. You mis-jumpered your original card. I have 4 ports at IRQs 4, 3, 9 & 5 respectively and have no problems. I would think you either left them at COM1 & COM2 (same as the new I/O card) or got the IRQs wrong. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....