From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 10 1:30:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A056C37B400 for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 01:30:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.177]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 824F743E3B for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 01:30:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phoenix@minion.de) Received: from [212.227.126.160] (helo=mrelayng0.kundenserver.de) by moutng3.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #2) id 17ogOr-0005tz-00; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 10:29:33 +0200 Received: from [80.144.9.64] (helo=chronos) by mrelayng0.kundenserver.de with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 17ogOq-0006WE-00; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 10:29:33 +0200 Received: from phoenix by chronos with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17odNW-0000zH-00; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 07:15:58 +0200 Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 07:15:58 +0200 From: Christian Zander To: Terry Lambert Cc: Julian Elischer , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what does this mean? Message-ID: <20020910071558.B2943@chronos> Reply-To: Christian Zander References: <3D7D3247.4863F22@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D7D3247.4863F22@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-Operating-System: GNU/Linux [2.4.19][i686] Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 04:44:07PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > It's also a possible message, if you have a serial port > disabled in the BIOS, but the hardware probe finds the > hardware there, because the BIOS is merely advisory, and > you have not disable "PnP OS" in the BIOS. > Something along these lines occured on my notebook in response to a kernel configuraton entry for the second serial port on my notebook. While the port appears to be advertised, it doesn't actually seem to exist. -- christian zander zander@minion.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message