From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 9 13:54:15 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA03816 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 13:54:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net (smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net [165.87.194.252]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id NAA03809 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 13:54:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id VAA151683; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 21:54:05 GMT Message-Id: <199612092154.VAA151683@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> Received: from slip166-72-229-141.va.us.ibm.net(166.72.229.141) by smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net via smap (V1.3mjr) id smaHQsDe7; Mon Dec 9 21:53:34 1996 Reply-To: From: "Steve Sims" To: <34lz5ap@cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu> Cc: , Subject: FreeBSD & Compaq Aero - sio question Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 16:52:38 -0500 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In your installation of FreeBSD on your Compaq Aero, were you successful in getting the internal serial port to probe correctly? I've tried a GENERIC kernel from 2.1.6 and 2.2-ALPHA, as well as Hosokawa's PAO-enabled boot floppy and none of them probe the internal port successfully, regardless of the CMOS configuration (com1: or com2:) of the hardware (set though Compaq's diagnostic / setup floppy). This is similar to a problem that I had with FreeBSD on a Compaq LTE-Elite; while the OS ran fine, neither sio0 or sio1 ever did probe correctly (even with some extended delay added to sio.c). I ran this problem by Nate and Bruce, but never really delved under the covers and sorted it out. Apparently our friends at Compaq do something goofy with their hardware, but I haven't a clue as to what. I assume you have had some success???? ...sjs...