Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 21:41:10 -0800 (PST) From: brian@mediacity.com (Brian Litzinger) To: root@vhf.dataradio.com (Andrew Webster) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 doesn't always see serial ports! Message-ID: <m0rqwgo-000rbxC@easynet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.91.950320172453.24320B-100000@vhf.dataradio.com> from "Andrew Webster" at Mar 20, 95 05:27:16 pm
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> > > Hi, > > This is actually an adendum to the gated problem I posted not too long > ago. When the system crashes, after the reboot, it does not see 6 of the > 8 ports on a digiboard pc8 card. I've configured it as described in the > SIO(4) documentation for a BOCA board with a shared IRQ, flags 0x905. > When this happends, if I do a manual reboot (sync;sync;sync;reboot), the > system comes backup correctly with all serial ports visible. > > Could there be a timing problem in the driver somewhere? I have a PCMCIA based 16550A UART in a laptop of mine, which FreeBSD misses sometimes too. I run an enabler from DOS before booting FreeBSD. Brian Litzinger brian@easynet.com
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