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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!olivea!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.primenet.com!news.primenet.com!not-for-mail From: p_s_i@primenet.com (Tony Rasa) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Weird Serial Port problem - Suggestions? Date: 13 Aug 1996 12:02:02 -0700 Organization: Primenet Lines: 25 Sender: p_s_i@primenet.com Message-ID: <4uqjfa$bhs@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> Reply-To: p_s_i@primenet.com X-Posted-By: @204.245.30.215 (p_s_i) X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 I've just installed freebsd 2.1.5, and have run into a freaky problem: The hardware probe will only detect my com1: port correctly. I've got a "generic" IDE i/o card which is set up to control com1 and 2 (to use the dos parlance ;), and a Zoom 28.8kbps modem set up to run on com4. I went into -c on boot and disabled com2 + 3 (since they're not being used in one case and to get rid of the IRQ conflict in the other) .. but no good. My question: is there a way to "force" freebsd to recognize com4? To date, it has had no problems at all detecting com1 + the mouse hooked up to it. Due to the fact that the generic card is a piece of junk I can't move the modem off of com4...and all of this works fine under MS-Dos. any suggestions? I currently don't have the $ to get another I/O card to try...I'm tempted to think that is the problem somehow . . . *shrug* Thanks . . . Tony Rasa p_s_i@primenet.com