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Date:      Fri, 15 May 1998 16:59:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        ale loco <amtoledano@yahoo.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: serial port aero 4/25
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980515165838.2866J-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19980513231151.24656.rocketmail@send1b.yahoomail.com>

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On Wed, 13 May 1998, ale loco wrote:

> I'm from Buenos Aires,Argentina.
> I need help about FreeBSD.

Hello!

> I have a notebook with FreeBSD Release 2.2.5 in my
> Compaq Aero 4/25 8 Mb RAM.
> My problem is the serial port (sio0)-->is true :)
> The FreeBSD tell me: not found at ....
> I have a minimal install in my machine.
> I dont have floppy now.
> I want see my serial port (COM1), there is my external
> modem US Robotics Spotster 33.6 and want use PPP for
> Internet.
> I need rebuild my kernel??

Yes, and add in some patches.  See:

        http://nest.bistbn.com/~yury/FreeBSD/sio.patch/sio.patch.2.2.5-R

for the patch.  The patches liberalize the sio probe a bit since your chip
doesn't act like a real UART.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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