From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 28 6: 7:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.gti.net (apollo.gti.net [199.171.27.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93E8B37B727 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 06:07:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from y3k@gti.net) Received: from sludge.amc-inc.com (ts5m-pool0-219.gti.net [208.216.126.219]) by apollo.gti.net (mail) with ESMTP id 0DA4114598E; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:07:16 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200103272224.f2RMOHc18749@ptavv.es.net> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:02:39 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: Mark Yeck From: Mark Yeck To: Kevin Oberman Subject: RE: Can't use COM1 port Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 27-Mar-01 Kevin Oberman wrote: > When I attempt to access the COM1 port on my IBM 600E, the system > locks up. The mouse is dead and CTRL-ALT-BS and CTRL-ALT-DEL do > nothing. > > I have tried both minicom and kermit with similar results. I have also > looked at the dmesg and see disturbing things: > sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 > sio0 at port 0x3f8-ox3ff irq4 flags 0x10 on isa0 > sio0: type 8250 > sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 > > I have confirmed the IRQ and address for sio0 are the same as windows > uses on this system. Any idea how I might get this working? With a > rock-solid hang, it's pretty tough to get pointers to the problem. I've actually experienced something like this recently. Changing the BIOS setting for the com port fixed it. Unfortunately I dont remember what I changed it from or to. That was on an Intel motherboard running 4.1.1-R` -mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message