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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Weird Serial Port problem - Suggestions? Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 15:03:32 +0000 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 40 Message-ID: <3215DF44.2781E494@www.play-hookey.com> References: <4uqjfa$bhs@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b6 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Tony Rasa wrote: > > 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 . . . > Two possibilities, no guarantees. First, do you have a /dev/cuaa3 file? If not, create it with MAKEDEV. If that doesn't work, you might try using the boot: -c option to go back and call it COM2 again, but put in the actual port and IRQ values it is really using. Then, access it as cuaa1 and go on from there. Incidentally, this isn't one of those @#!$*&$#!@& Plug'n'Play ISA cards, is it? If so, you may need to disable that function to get the thing to work. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |