From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 8 23:06:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA22909 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 23:06:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from smmcroute.smmc.qld.edu.au (smmcdialin.ultra.net.au [203.56.101.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA22893 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 23:06:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keith@smmcroute.smmc.qld.edu.au) Received: from staff2.smmc.qld.edu.au (staff2.smmc.qld.edu.au [203.56.180.49]) by smmcroute.smmc.qld.edu.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA00221; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 15:33:42 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <199801090533.PAA00221@smmcroute.smmc.qld.edu.au> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Keith Spencer" Organization: St Margaret Marys College To: Norman C Rice Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 17:15:01 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: It won't probe extra com ports 3,4 CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.42a) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi Norman > > I am trying to upgrade my system from scratch with an extra i/o board > > an a bigger drive installed so I have coms1-4. The techie has > > installed it OK and run test software and cmos recognises 3 & 4 the > > newies. > Did you enable the devices in the kernel configuration file and > rebuild the kernel? I think they are disabled and commented in the > GENERIC kernel. Ensure you set the interrupts/irqs correctly. > > # device sio2 at isa? disable port "IO_COM3" tty irq 5 vector siointr > # device sio3 at isa? disable port "IO_COM4" tty irq 9 vector siointr > ^ ^^^^^^^ > Remove to enable. OOPS ! thanks for that keith .................... Keith Spencer kspencer@smmc.qld.edu.au I.T. coordinator - St Margaret Marys College http://www.ultra.net.au/~smmc/smcframz.htm