Unable to get SIIG PCI serial card to work

[Clayton Scott Kern]

on 03-16-2006, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Thursday 16 March 2006 13:41, Clayton Scott Kern wrote:
> > First, I added _device puc_ to my kernel config file and built and
> > installed the new kernel.
> 
> That should have given you a puc0 device, did it not?
> 
No it didn't.

> > When that didn't work, I added _puc_load="YES"_ to /boot/loader and now
> > the card shows up as puc0, but no sioX.  sio0 is used by the onboard
> > serial port and is being used with an APC SmartUPS 700.
> 
> This won't work as the puc module doesn't include sio_puc (the version
> of the sio driver that attaches to puc devices).  Yes, this is somewhat
> lame as it means the puc module is basically useless.  I'm not sure if
> this has been made better since 6.0.
> 
OK, I'll stop loading the module in /boot/loader.conf and work from
there.

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