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Date:      Tue, 17 Feb 1998 07:57:40 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Yuri Krichevsky <yury@bistbn.com>
Cc:        Michael Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Serial ports on IWill motherboard
Message-ID:  <19980217075740.60224@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <007201bd3ad0$c53efcd0$33ae58d1@yuryk.bistbn.com>; from Yuri Krichevsky on Mon, Feb 16, 1998 at 01:48:17PM %2B0200
References:  <007201bd3ad0$c53efcd0$33ae58d1@yuryk.bistbn.com>

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On Mon, 16 February 1998 at 13:48:17 +0200, Yuri Krichevsky wrote:
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
>
>> Sorry, no progress.  We've established that it's because the chip
>> isn't interrupting during the probe, and that adding delays to wait
>> for it don't help, but we don't know why it isn't working.
>
>> Does anybody who has this board have something else than FreeBSD
>> running on it?  I'd be interested to hear if the problem is unique to
>> FreeBSD.
>
>     Yes, this problem is unique to FreeBSD. Linux (sorry ;-) and
>     Win95 (sorry :) detects serial ports without any problem.

No need to apologize.  Obviously it will work with Microsoft, because
they wouldn't be able to ship if it didn't.  The fact that it works
with Linux is valuable information.

>     I think, > that problem is with 'PnP Multi I/O'.....
>
>> Also, if somebody who has easy access to the board could
>> write down the numbers on the chips, this could help us.
>
>     This is Acer Labs chip
>
>     ALi
>     M5135 A1
>     9736 T56
>     BC842510A
>
>     Here you can find additional info about this chip
>     http://www.acerlabs.com/acerlabs/brief/m513xpb.htm

Thanks.  Just to confirm.  This is the IWill board, is it?  I see the
first bullet: "Supports Serialized IRQ protocol".  I wonder if this is
something different.  I'm copying Mike Smith on this--he's currently
investigating the problem.

Greg


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