From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 20 21:50:27 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAB00187 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 21:50:27 -0800 Received: from easynet.com (easyr.easynet.net [198.67.38.6]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id VAA00181 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 21:50:13 -0800 Received: by easynet.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #7) id m0rqwgo-000rbxC; Mon, 20 Mar 95 21:41 WET Message-Id: From: brian@mediacity.com (Brian Litzinger) Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 doesn't always see serial ports! To: root@vhf.dataradio.com (Andrew Webster) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 21:41:10 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Andrew Webster" at Mar 20, 95 05:27:16 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 695 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > 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