From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 29 23:31:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA06284 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 23:31:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA06279 for ; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 23:31:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA23770; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 23:31:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 23:31:36 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Henry Hojnacki cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serial Port Problems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Henry Hojnacki wrote: > I am running FreeBSD 2.1. I had a 486 motherboard, and everything was > hunky dory and running fine. I have now upgraded to a P166MMX M/B, and > I am experiencing some problems. For some reason, FreeBSD refuses to > recognize the serial ports. During boot up, the message comes up: > > sio0: not found at 0x3f8 > sio1: not found at 0x2f8 This is a known bug. Apparently Iwill boards use a not-quite-UART and the sio probe doesn't like that. Please see http://www.lemis.com/serial-port-patch.html for a patch. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message