From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Mon Sep 27 20:47:23 2004
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB3DE16A4CE
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Mon, 27 Sep 2004 20:47:23 +0000 (GMT)
Received: from mta10.adelphia.net (mta10.adelphia.net [68.168.78.202])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9565743D2F
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Mon, 27 Sep 2004 20:47:23 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from ababurko@adelphia.net)
Received: from ample.adelphia.net ([24.52.224.96]) by mta10.adelphia.net
          (InterMail vM.6.01.03.02 201-2131-111-104-20040324) with ESMTP
          id <20040927204723.ZOFH9204.mta10.adelphia.net@ample.adelphia.net>;
          Mon, 27 Sep 2004 16:47:23 -0400
Message-Id: <5.2.1.1.0.20040927164658.01a45690@mail.dc2.adelphia.net>
X-Sender: ababurko@mail.dc2.adelphia.net
X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.1
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 16:47:22 -0400
To: David Rio Deiros <drio@eracks.com>
From: Bob Ababurko <ababurko@adelphia.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040927202439.GA18223@eracks.com>
References: <5.2.1.1.0.20040927160438.01d6ec58@mail.dc2.adelphia.net>
 <5.2.1.1.0.20040927142904.00a7dbd8@mail.dc2.adelphia.net>
 <5.2.1.1.0.20040927142904.00a7dbd8@mail.dc2.adelphia.net>
 <5.2.1.1.0.20040927160438.01d6ec58@mail.dc2.adelphia.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: serial port config
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 20:47:24 -0000

At 01:24 PM 9/27/2004 -0700, David Rio Deiros wrote:
> > So, let me get this straight....I am going to add:
> >
> > >device sio0 at isa? port IO_COM1 flags 0x10 irq 4
> >
> > to the kernel configuration, aka the GENERIC file in 
> /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
> > if the
> > system is not customized at all?
>
>What you are doing is to tell the kernel what he needs to do to
>configure that device. If by not "customized at all" you mean you don't
>have the hardware in the computer yet, there is no problem, when you
>will boot the kernel it will give up if there is no hardware.


By not customized, I mean that the file will be the GENERIC kernel config 
file.  This doesn't seem to be the correct way as I get this error message:

config: /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC:279: devices with zero units are not 
likely to be correct

What file do I add this line to?:

device sio0 at isa? port IO_COM1 flags 0x10 irq 4

-Bob