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Date:      Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:33:15 -0500
From:      Clayton Scott Kern <ckern1@twcny.rr.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unable to get SIIG PCI serial card to work
Message-ID:  <20060316203315.GA13585@reddwarf.local>
In-Reply-To: <200603161427.29180.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <20060316184128.GA12770@reddwarf.local> <200603161427.29180.jhb@freebsd.org>

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on 03-16-2006, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Thursday 16 March 2006 13:41, Clayton Scott Kern wrote:
> > First, I added _device puc_ to my kernel config file and built and
> > installed the new kernel.
> 
> That should have given you a puc0 device, did it not?
> 
No it didn't.

> > When that didn't work, I added _puc_load="YES"_ to /boot/loader and now
> > the card shows up as puc0, but no sioX.  sio0 is used by the onboard
> > serial port and is being used with an APC SmartUPS 700.
> 
> This won't work as the puc module doesn't include sio_puc (the version
> of the sio driver that attaches to puc devices).  Yes, this is somewhat
> lame as it means the puc module is basically useless.  I'm not sure if
> this has been made better since 6.0.
> 
OK, I'll stop loading the module in /boot/loader.conf and work from
there.

-- 
Clayton Scott Kern
ckern1@twcny.rr.com                   |  The software stated it required 
Firewall/UNIX System Administrator    |  Microsoft Windows 98SE or higher,
PIX, FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris & HP-UX  |  so I installed FreeBSD



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