From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 5 13:14:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA25046 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 13:14:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA25041 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 13:13:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA06823; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 13:08:43 -0800 Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 13:08:43 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Jai Durgam cc: questions@freebsd.org, jai@berlioz.nsc.com Subject: Re: Unable to configure Mouse in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <9603042306.AA02400@berlioz.nsc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 4 Mar 1996, Jai Durgam wrote: > Hi, I am posting this for a friend who does not have access as yet. He has a > serial mouse that the DOS world can find on COM1 but when be loads BSD, even > though the sio0-sio3 ports are enabled at the various addresses (sio0 has a > irq4, sio2 is irq5 etc), at time of bootup, there are no messages that say > something like > port sio1 at 0X3f8 irq4 on isa or something. No such messages apparently show > up for any of the sio devices but the lpt0 etc are all configured properly. They must be disabled, if no message shows. It should say something like sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa sio0: type 16550A sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa sio1: type 16550A If NOTHING appears, then they are disabled OR they weren't compiled in. Boot with -c and make sure they are enabled. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major