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Date:      Sun, 28 Jul 1996 17:41:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Richard Heller <rheller@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: http://freefall.cdrom.com/support.html
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960728174031.381G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199607282211.SAA27969@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu>

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On Sun, 28 Jul 1996, Richard Heller wrote:

>   I'm using a 80486 AT machine with AMI BIOS.  The FreeBSD kernel can find
> serial ports 0 and 1 (addresses 3F8 and 2F8) but can't find sio2 and sio3
> (addresses 3E8 and 2E8).  Does anybody have some idea of what might be
> wrong?  I can use all 4 serial ports under DOS, but FreeBSD can't find all
> of them.

With 2.1.5 this is normal.  sio2 and 3 conflicted with some video cards.
In addition, they are ususally set to some strange address (only sio0 and
1 are set by standard).

When you recompile your kernel, you can re-include them if you need them.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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