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Date:      Sun, 29 Mar 1998 23:31:36 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Henry Hojnacki <HEH@TRICOPROD.COM>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Serial Port Problems
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980329232812.23543c-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <s5178436.046@TRICOPROD.COM>

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On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Henry Hojnacki wrote:

> I am running FreeBSD 2.1.  I had a 486 motherboard, and everything was
> hunky dory and running fine.  I have now upgraded to a P166MMX M/B, and
> I am experiencing some problems.  For some reason, FreeBSD refuses to
> recognize the serial ports.  During boot up, the message comes up: 
> 
> sio0: not found at 0x3f8
> sio1: not found at 0x2f8

This is a known bug.  Apparently Iwill boards use a not-quite-UART and the
sio probe doesn't like that.  Please see
http://www.lemis.com/serial-port-patch.html for a patch.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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