Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 15:58:41 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeremy Shaffner <jer@jorsm.com> To: david@akadine.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel can't find serial ports Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980630155821.24890K-100000@mercury.jorsm.com> In-Reply-To: <35992A52.18C9@akadine.com>
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This is a known problem with Iwill motherboards. See the FAQ for the link to more information. On Tue, 30 Jun 1998 david@akadine.com wrote: > Hi, > > > > I have a new machine that I am trying to install FreeBSD 2.2.5 on. It > > is an Iwill P55XUW motherboard, Pentium 233MMX, 32MB Ram. In the BIOS > > (Award Modular BIOS 4.51PG, PNP extension 1.0A), Plug and Play OS is > turned off, irqs 3 and 4 are assigned to legacy ISA, serial ports 1 and > 2 are enabled and serial port 1 is set to 0x3f8, serial port 2 to > 0x2f8. Everything as they should be and also what has worked for > installing FreeBSD on other machines. > > > > According to the manual for the motherboard, the serial ports are 16550, > > IRQ selectable from BIOS, Address changeable from system BIOS, NS16C550 > > Compatible compatible and the ports work fine in DOS and Windows. > > > > I have stripped the machine of all cards save for a basic OAK video card > > so as to minimize interactions, disabled the on board SCSI, but still > > FreeBSD can't find the serial ports. As I mentioned, the BIOS shows the > > correct settings and when I installed FreeBSD, I told the installer to > > use the same settings. > > > > When I had an internal modem plugged in, that gets recognized no > > problem, its just the serial ports on the motherboard that it has a > > problem with. The motherboard is USB capable with an add-on riser card > and in the PCI device listing it shows a Serial Bus Controller which I > don't know if its for USB or regular serial. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Please respond to my email address as well as the newsgroup, I don't > know which I would see first and perhaps others may find this info > useful. > > Thanx! > > David > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -===================================================================- Jeremy Shaffner JORSM Internet Senior Technical Support Northwest Indiana's Premium jer@jorsm.com Internet Service Provider support@jorsm.com http://www.jorsm.com -===================================================================- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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