From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 27 18:46:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA17905 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 18:46:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA17900 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 18:46:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA13794; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 18:45:54 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 18:45:54 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "A.E." cc: questions Subject: Re: sio2 not detected at 0x3e8 In-Reply-To: <34544C98.A7CF7C9@direct.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, A.E. wrote: > sio2 with flags 0x80: > > sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa > sio0: type 16550A > sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa > sio1: type 16550A > sio2: probe test 0 failed > sio2: probe test 1 failed > sio2: probe test 2 failed > sio2: probe test 3 failed > sio2: probe test 4 failed > sio2: probe test 6 failed > sio2: probe test 7 failed > sio2: probe test 9 failed > sio2 not found at 0x3e8 > > What do these test for? The tests make sure that the device really is a serial device. Apparently the device at 0x3e8 fails horribly, so it probably isn't a real serial device, or does not properly emulate a serial device. If it's plug&pray, it may need to be initialized. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major