From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Jul 19 22:53:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA29523 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 22:53:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA29515 for ; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 22:53:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA23915; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 22:50:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 22:50:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Mike Del cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I am having problems getting Freebsd to find my com port. In-Reply-To: <19980719150211.24995.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Mike Del wrote: > I was wondering if anyone out there could help me with a > problem I am having with my com port. Ok, my bios says the the com port > is at 0x3f8. Then I booted off of a dos disk, and ran msd, this told me > that I did have a com port, and it was at the address 0x3f8. > I compiled a new kernel, adding a line for sio0, and rebooted. When > FreeBSD booted it says sio0 not found at 0x3f8. I am very confused buy > this, I then built a new kernel with the sio0 line but changed were the > port went to port? , This said basically the same thing, sio0 not found. > The computer is a toshiba satellite 315CDS. Anyone that can help me out > please do, I really would like to have my com port available :) This is an increasingly common and annoying problem. Apply the kernel patch at http://www.lemis.com/serial-port-patch.html to get you going. 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-mobile" in the body of the message