Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 13:01:50 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> To: Claudiu Bichir <claudiubichir@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: COM ports Message-ID: <20030914110149.GP26878@cicely12.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <20030911162944.83928.qmail@web41302.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030911162944.83928.qmail@web41302.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 09:29:44AM -0700, Claudiu Bichir wrote: > Hy folks ! > I have FreeBSD 5.0 installed on my computer and I wanted to know how can I > enable the COM3 & COM4 ports. The ports are disabled by default in 5.0. > I tried to modify /boot/device.hints but with no hope . > I commented hint.sio.2.disabled="1" and hint.sio.3.disabled="1" out but when I rebooted it said smt like "irq 5 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 ;port may not be enabled;" the same goes for sio3(but with 9 instead of 5) .I'm just starting so ... don't know what to do anymore. > I already read the handbook and the sio(4) manual page but I haven't found something helpfull yet. > I'm asking all this because I have an Aztech UM9800 external modem which's on COM3(at least that's what Windows shows )and I cannot change its COM port to 1 or 2 . > It is recognized as ugen0 when the system boots. > It is an usb modem but I was told by people on this list that I can use it with FreeBSD. > If I can then I would appreciate any help from you on how to set it up. > Thanks people ! The sio driver is not for usb devices. Build a kernel with umodem/ucom if your modem is really a modem and not one of those softmodem things. In the later case there is almost no hope to get it working - and it's not really worth it IMHO. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de ticso@bwct.de info@bwct.de
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