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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Weird Serial Port problem -  Suggestions?
Date: 14 Aug 1996 07:26:56 GMT
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p_s_i@primenet.com (Tony Rasa) wrote:

> My question:  is there a way to "force" freebsd to recognize com4? 

It's certainly not a com4 (aka sio3) problem, but rather the well-
known problem many internal modems are suffering from, since they do
emulate the UART and have timing problems.  I think this is covered
in the handbook.

You could set the flag 0x80 for the sio3 port (after boot -c), in
order to see which probe it fails, and by looking into the code in
/sys/i386/isa/sio.c, you will see which it is.  You might hack around
the poor UART emulation by increasing some DELAY() in the probe code
then.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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