From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 17 15:56:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA05403 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 15:56:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA05398 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 15:56:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (root@woof.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA19249; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 23:11:26 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woof.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA13177; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 23:10:01 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199810172210.XAA13177@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: bsq@sw.cas.uec.ac.jp cc: brian@Awfulhak.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: NS* serial chips (was: ppp hangs) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 17 Oct 1998 23:13:49 +0900." <199810171413.XAA07865@fermat.sw.cas.uec.ac.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 23:10:00 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [.....] > > The only strange thing here is that there's no linefeed after the > > ``16550A'' bit... but it's not strange enough to mean anything much > > AFAIK. > > > > [.....] > > Sorry, I made some mistakes in converting the message to DOS style. > Here is part of the verbose output of probe. > ----- > sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 > sio0: irq maps: 0x1 0x1 0x1 0x1 > sio0: probe failed test(s): 0 1 4 6 7 9 This is likely to be what the problem is. Looks like your serial chip isn't behaving as expected. > sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa > sio0: type 16550A > sio1: irq maps: 0x1 0x9 0x1 0x1 > sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa > sio1: type 16550A > sio2: disabled, not probed. > sio3: disabled, not probed. > ----- > The UART is NS16550AN (I just checked on Windows 98). Hope this to > be useful too. (The comments of sio.c says that "Serial drivers ... > Works for ... NS8250-NS16550AF UARTs.") I don't know much about the model numbers of these chips I'm afraid, but from what you've already found out, it looks like it isn't in the ``works for'' list :-/ > Sorry again for my mistakes, and thank you very much. > > Bao I've re-subjected this message in the hope that someone more knowledgeable than me can comment. FWIW, the -current version of sio.c only boasts supporting up to the NS16550AF UART too. -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message