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Date:      Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:21:00 -0400
From:      "JJB" <Barbish3@adelphia.net>
To:        "Ajesh John" <ajeshjohn@fastmail.fm>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Can't detect COM ports...
Message-ID:  <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGEEJCGJAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net>
In-Reply-To: <1092851089.4474.202590884@webmail.messagingengine.com>

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owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 16:15:02 +0300, "Ajesh John"
> <ajeshjohn@fastmail.fm> said:
>> Hi,
>>   I have got a problem with my HS56 PCTel modem because I can not
>>   enable my serial ports. The first two ports are automatically
>>   enabled, but the third and the fourth does not get enabled. I
read
>>   the handbook and tried to do it myself, but without success. I
>>   have connected the modem to the COM3 port(sio2). When I take
the
>>   output of "dmesg" command I get the following output....
>>
>> sio2: configured irq 5 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
>> sio2: port may not be enabled
>> sio3: configured irq 9 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
>> sio3: port may not be enabled
>>
>> The irqs and are as follows
>> sio0  4
>> sio1  3
>> sio2  5
>> sio3  9
>>
>> I have also removed the lines that disable COM3 and COM4 ports
from
>> the file "/boot/device.hints". Can anyone please tell me what
should
>> I do now?
>>
>> 							Ajesh John
> Hi,
>
> I'm sorry. I forgot to include this. I have an internal modem. And
I'm
> using FreeBSD 5.1.
> There are only 2 cuaa devices in the /dev directory(cuaa1 and
cuaa2).
>
> Are my ports detected correctly or is it my modem that is not
> detected?,
>
>   			- Ajesh
>
>
Check your boot log /var/run/dmesg.boot and if your internal PCI
modem is not an winmodem.
When the boot probe process finds a PCI modem it automatically moves
it to sio4 as the dmesg.boot messages shows below.

sio0: <Zoom PCI Modem> port 0xe400-0xe407,0xe000-0xe0ff,
mem 0xe2000000-0xe20000ff irq 3 at device 19.0 on pci0
sio0: moving to sio4
sio4: type 16550A


Sio4 is internal device cuaa4.




pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x1106, dev=0x3050) at 7.3

You will get this message if your PCI modem card is a Winmodem. Very
seldom is the PCI modem card physical labeled or marked as a
Winmodem. Read the marketing information on the box your PCI modem
came in, or check out the support web site for the PCI modem's
manufacture to verify it's a Winmodem. If your PCI modem card is am
Winmodem, replace it with a PCI modem card that has onbard DSP and
controller chips.








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