From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 2 23:09:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA02877 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 2 Aug 1996 23:09:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line16.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.63]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA02872 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 1996 23:09:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA00652; Fri, 2 Aug 1996 23:09:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 23:09:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Mike cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem Adding Serial Port In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Mike wrote: > > > I just bought an SIIG i/o card with dual 16550 serial ports and a parallel > > > port. I already have com1 and com2 with base addresses 3f8 and 2f8 > > > and IRQ's 4 and 3 respectively. I enabled ONLY com3 on the new card base > > > address 3e8 and IRQ 5 and plugged it in. No matter what I try, FreeBSD > > > will not see the new card. I plugged the same card into another box with > > > Win95 on it and it saw the additional serial port right away. I did > > > recompile my kernel to add support for sio2 before this episode even > > > started. Am I missing something? > > > > Did you reset the settings for sio2 with -c? > > > > Did you make sure NOTHING else is using irq 5? Not even unsupported > > devices? > > > > Yes, I did all of the above. My NIC was using IRQ5 for the longest time > and I just moved it to IRQ10 last night. Thanks > I guess I'd better see the dmesg and kernel configuration then. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major