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Date:      Mon, 8 Nov 1999 21:34:10 +1300
From:      Joe Abley <jabley@patho.gen.nz>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   ThinkPad 380, sio doesn't do much
Message-ID:  <19991108213409.A31181@patho.gen.nz>

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I have a ThinkPad 380/2635 and I'll be damned if I can get the
built-in serial port to do anything for me.

I'm running FreeBSD-3.3-PAO, and have sio configured like this:

  device sio0 at isa? port "IO_COM1" flags 0x10 tty irq 4 vector siointr
  device sio1 at isa? disable port "IO_COM2" tty irq 3

I've also tried

  device sio0 at isa? port "IO_COM1" flags 0x10 tty irq 4

which made no difference to how the port didn't work. dmesg shows:

  sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa
  sio0: type 16550A

I have a Xircom REM56G-100 pcmcia adapter which functions very well as a
modem, appearing on sio1.

I found a few old messages from someone else complaining that the
ThinkPad uart lies dormant until awoken by some nasty proprietary
IBM win98 driver, which clearly I'm not running here. I am hoping
that this is not the case, and there is some magic I can do to
make everything better.

I don't suppose anybody else has a ThinkPad 380 working well under
FreeBDS 3.3, and can share some tips with me?

Also, I was wondering -- does PAO buy me anything on a TP380? Or would
regular 3.3 work just fine? PCIC on this machine reports itself as
"Cirrus Logic PD6729/6730 PC-Card Controller".


Joe


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