Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 13:48:17 +0200 From: "Yuri Krichevsky" <yury@bistbn.com> To: "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Serial ports on IWill motherboard Message-ID: <007201bd3ad0$c53efcd0$33ae58d1@yuryk.bistbn.com>
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-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Subject: Re: Serial ports on IWill motherboard
>Sorry, no progress. We've established that it's because the chip
>isn't interrupting during the probe, and that adding delays to wait
>for it don't help, but we don't know why it isn't working.
>Does anybody who has this board have something else than FreeBSD
>running on it? I'd be interested to hear if the problem is unique to
>FreeBSD.
Yes, this problem is unique to FreeBSD. Linux (sorry ;-) and Win95
(sorry :)
detects serial ports without any problem. I think, that problem is
with 'PnP Multi I/O'.....
> Also, if somebody who has easy access to the board could
>write down the numbers on the chips, this could help us.
This is Acer Labs chip
ALi
M5135 A1
9736 T56
BC842510A
Here you can find additional info about this chip
http://www.acerlabs.com/acerlabs/brief/m513xpb.htm
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