From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 13 17:54:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA05722 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 17:54:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA05619 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 17:53:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA02416; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 17:52:23 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 17:52:23 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Pedro Vapi cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My dear sio1 (COM2) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Pedro Vapi wrote: > > Hi, > > I am going to put here a question not exactly about freebsd, but i am > desperated... > I have mysteriously losed contact with my sio1. Suddendly, it started to > say, sio1: not found at [????] > > I have instaled a modem in the same COM and IRQ. Does it matters? YES! They conflict! Either change the modem or the BIOS to use another port. > I have removed the modem, but it still says it doesn't exists... Have you checked your BIOS settings? > Does i need to change my Motherboard? > Ah, using DOS or W95 the problem is the same... also, if the problem > exists in W95, i wouldn't be surprised, but in FreeBSD it means that a > real problem is going with my dear sio1!!! :(((( Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major