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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: sio[01] problems
Date: 5 Sep 1996 17:09:32 +0100
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James Housley (housley@pr-comm.com) wrote:
: I have a Compaq Contura 430C laptop.  I have installed and am running
: 2.1.5-R.  The problem I am having is the kernel can't find sio0.  BIOS and
: all the DOS/Windoze program say COM1 is where it belongs.  I have also
: tried enabling sio1.  Can't find either.  Any suggestions?

No suggestions except that I just upgraded to a 200Mhz P6, and suddenly
sio2 isn't probed any more.  The only cards that I've changed (apart from
the motherboard) is a TVGA8900C to a 9FX Reality 332 and a 1542B to a
2940W.  I've tried swapping the IRQ between 9 & 5 with no joy - sio3 works
with both IRQs.....  I've swapped sio2 & sio3's physical UARTs around - same
problem..... something must be using the I/O address :(

Anyway, I havn't treated the problem seriously - I only actually need
one sio anyway....  I must try to find the CMOS PCI setup - it's a Dell,
so it's probably on the "Dell diagnostic disk" :(

--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....