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Date:      Mon, 2 Mar 1998 13:15:17 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Glen W Mann <gmann@itw.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New Pentium - sio0 (and mouse) not found
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980302131401.19148Q-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980228005018.419B-100000@myname.my.domain>

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On Sat, 28 Feb 1998, Glen W Mann wrote:

> I bought a new Pentium because my 486 died.  Awwwwww.  :( 
> 
> FreeBSD cannot find sio0 where (I guess) the mouse should be (dmesg
> below), and thus X cannot find a mouse.  I also tried the psm0 and mse0
> devices with no success.  NT 4.0 uses the mouse fine (it calls it a
> Logitech Serial Mouse)  but getting information from NT (like WHERE IS
> IT?) is impossible.  COM2 shows up in the NT control panel but COM1 does
> not, so FreeBSD and NT agree the port is gone. 

Make sure com1 is enabled in the BIOS.

The mouse isn't PS/2?  I had to look pretty hard to find a MB that didn't
use PS/2 mouse/keyboard connectors when I bought my ASUS T2P4 a while
back.  I still got a PS/2 mouse connector on a faceplate with a header to
plug it into.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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