From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 15 20:52:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA07354 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 20:52:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA07338 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 20:52:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id NAA18082; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 13:22:16 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980716132215.G23356@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 13:22:15 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Satwant , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cant configure serial port. References: <199807160314.WAA19115@mail.xnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199807160314.WAA19115@mail.xnet.com>; from Satwant on Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 08:11:27PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 15 July 1998 at 20:11:27 -0400, Satwant wrote: > On TECRA 550CDT (Toshiba laptop) I get "unable to configure sio1" at > reboot. The internal modem is connected to irq 3 & 9. That can't be. sio ports only connect to one IRQ. > The section 5.3.7 on Handbook says.. > > "if you have internal modem on COM4 and a serial port at COM2 you will have > to change the IRQ of the modem to 2 (for obscure resaons IRQ 2 = IRQ 9 in > order to access it from FreeBSD)." > > How do you change the IRQ of the internal modem on a laptop. That depends on the laptop. First you need to establish what you really have. How many serial ports (including the modem) does it have? How are they configured? What does dmesg say on boot? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message