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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: cstruble@quirk.com, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Weirdnesses with serial ports and lpd
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>These are actually two separate problems. First, I've noticed that
>whatever serial ports that FreeBSD touches become unavailable to my
>BIOS whenever I reboot. I have Award BIOS on an OPTI based P60
>motherboard. I have no clue why this is happening, and I was wondering
>if anyone else sees this problem.

The BIOS may be confused by the ports having their fifos enabled.

Bruce