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Subject: Re: multi-port serial devices
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On Saturday 29 October 2005 07:45 pm, Jim Pazarena wrote:
> just purchased Specialix SX modular high speed serial solution
>
> Specialix has changed their name (bought out by perhaps) to Perle.
>
> The FreeDSD 5.4 hardware compatibility list indicates
> "Specialix SI/XIO/SX" multiport serial cards, are supports (si(4) driver)
>
> however a compile of the kernel with  "device si" doesn't even
> discover the card. The supplied DOS utility to probe the device works
> as expected.
>
> Can anyone offer a suggestion.

Is this a PCI card?  If so, can you try adding it's device ID to the si(4) 
driver?  If you aren't sure how to do that, just post the output of pciconf 
-lv and include the section of info about your card.

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