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Date:      Thu, 30 May 96 12:06:58 EST
From:      henrys@integral.com.au (Shane M Henry)
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Serial port problems on Compaq Laptop
Message-ID:  <9605300206.AA20150@gauss.com.au>

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Hi,

I seem to be having a few problems getting my Laptop to    
work properly with its serial board. I've tryed many things
but nothing seems to work. The story so far.......

I have a Compaq LTE ELITE 4/40CX running FreeBSD 2.1.0 and have
configured my kernel to suit. eg: sio0 at 0x3f8 irq 4
When I boot up I get an error message saying it can't find
sio0 at 0x3f8 irq 4.


So I rebooted it and used the -c option at boot time and set 
the irq on sio0 to -1.

This worked it come back with the message:
sio0 at 0x3f8 at 0x3f8-0x407 on isa
sio0: type 16550A

The problem now is that if I use the serial port at a speed of
19200 or greater I receive the following error messages:
sio0: 21 more silo overflows (total 21)

At 9600 everything seems to work OK.

I've read a couple of mail/news from audience@soback.kornet.nm.kr
who seems to be having the same problem on his Compaq Laptop
he mentioned he got a easy fix for it when he was running 
FreeBSD 2.0 but forgot what he done.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

PS my serial board is definalty set up at 0x3f8 irq4

Thanks in advance.

Shane.



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