From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 2 13:32:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-11.mail.demon.net (finch-post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14E7C153F2 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 13:32:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by finch-post-11.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10Hwlf-000Ia7-00; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 21:31:55 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from marder-1. (rasnt-1 [193.114.228.211]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id VAA00973; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 21:31:28 GMT Received: (from marko@localhost) by marder-1. (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA00381; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 21:29:18 GMT (envelope-from marko) Message-ID: <19990302212918.F208@localhost> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 21:29:18 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: "William W. Crook" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: modem on com 4 References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from William W. Crook on Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 01:42:26PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 01:42:26PM -0600, William W. Crook wrote: > > > > COM4 uses IRQ3 (shared with COM2) whereas the default IRQ for sio3 is > > 9. Is this the problem? > > No, it's not PnP. It's got jumpers that switch it from PnP to normal, > that I presumably have in the right position (that guy I mentioned > confirmed this). I set sio3 for irq 3, recompiled and rebooted and bsd > still isn't finding sio3. Nothing is on com2 (that's where i used my > external modem). Should I disable com2 in the kernel? Assuming that > doesn't work, what should I look at next? > There's no need to keep rebuilding the kernel (as long as all the sio's are enabled in the config file), just ``boot -c'' and change the settings, or disable ports, there. e.g. this is what I need to do to use my PnP sound card (I store the info in /kernel.config so the settings automatically get added if I make a new kernel). I need to set sio2 to IRQ 9, which is used by sio3 by default, so I disable sio3, then set the IRQ for sio2 to 9 FreeBSD Kernel Configuration Utility - Version 1.1 Type "help" for help or "visual" to go to the visual configuration interface (requires MGA/VGA display or serial terminal capable of displaying ANSI graphics). config> disable sio3 config> irq sio2 9 config> pnp 1 0 os enable port0 0x220 port1 0x530 port2 0x388 port3 0x370 config> pnp 1 0 irq0 5 drq0 1 drq1 5 config> quit > Thanks. > You're welcome -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message