From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 9 08:47:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA16147 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 08:47:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.xinetron.com (www.xinetron.com [206.86.215.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA16138 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 08:47:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pop.xinetron.com (pop.xinetron.com [206.86.215.82]) by www.xinetron.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA01181; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 08:47:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jason.xinetron.com (jason.xinetron.com [206.86.215.94]) by pop.xinetron.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA26773; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 08:47:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <34156F63.587CBE80@xinetron.com> Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 08:46:43 -0700 From: Jason Liao Organization: Xinetron, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Davidson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FreeBSD 2.2.2 fails to probe the 'sio' ports? X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk There is a BIOS update (dated 08/26/97) at http://ftp.iwill.com.tw/p55xb2dl.htm . However, I don't know if it can solve the problem. --Jason ------------------------------------- During the bootup probe (and from 'dmesg'), I get: sio0 not found at 0x3f8 sio1 not found at 0x2f8 and no serial port activity works, e.g. tip hw (with /dev/cuaa0). The BIOS shows this hardware to be present at the appropriate addresses and IRQs (both at BIOS config and during startup). But Freebsd 2.2.2 cannot successfully probe it. I have a recently-purchased Iwill P55XB2 motherboard with Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG. All extraneous cards have been pulled and the ports work perfectly under MS-DOS 6.22. There are no internal serial-like cards (i.e. a modem). Anyone have any ideas? Steve ------------------------------- -- --------------------- Jason Liao ---------------------