From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 11 09:29:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 033AD16A4BF for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:29:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web41302.mail.yahoo.com (web41302.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.93.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8F7AC43FBF for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:29:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from claudiubichir@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20030911162944.83928.qmail@web41302.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [213.233.107.70] by web41302.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:29:44 PDT Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:29:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Claudiu Bichir To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: COM ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 16:29:45 -0000 Hy folks ! I have FreeBSD 5.0 installed on my computer and I wanted to know how can I enable the COM3 & COM4 ports. The ports are disabled by default in 5.0. I tried to modify /boot/device.hints but with no hope . I commented hint.sio.2.disabled="1" and hint.sio.3.disabled="1" out but when I rebooted it said smt like "irq 5 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 ;port may not be enabled;" the same goes for sio3(but with 9 instead of 5) .I'm just starting so ... don't know what to do anymore. I already read the handbook and the sio(4) manual page but I haven't found something helpfull yet. I'm asking all this because I have an Aztech UM9800 external modem which's on COM3(at least that's what Windows shows )and I cannot change its COM port to 1 or 2 . It is recognized as ugen0 when the system boots. It is an usb modem but I was told by people on this list that I can use it with FreeBSD. If I can then I would appreciate any help from you on how to set it up. Thanks people ! --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software