From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 25 15:40:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA01428 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Mar 1998 15:40:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA01349 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 1998 15:39:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (jack@localhost) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA21772; Wed, 25 Mar 1998 18:39:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 18:39:18 -0500 (EST) From: jack To: Greg Lehey cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My FreeBSD 2.2.2 can't find on-board serial ports sio0 and sio1 In-Reply-To: <19980326093712.32627@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > There is a known problem with some Intel 430TX-based motherboards, > notably those from Iwill. The problem seems to be related to a > specific Acer UART. I have a patch on > http://www.lemis.com/serial-port-patch.html. Try that and see if it > helps. Another possibility. I've seen some BIOS/MB combinations where the PlugnPray assigned some `unconventional' IRQs when allowed to auto-configure the serial ports. And end up with 4 and/or 3 unassigned. Go figure. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message