PCI serial card works on 6.2 but not on 6.3

Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt at mac.com
Mon May 5 19:17:18 UTC 2008


On May 5, 2008, at 2:01 AM, Ingeborg Hellemo wrote:

>
> koitsu at freebsd.org said:
>> Try loading the uart(4) driver, which can also replace sio(4) if I  
>> remember
>> correctly.
>
> With puc(4) and sio(4) you have to make sure that both are either  
> compiled
> into the kernel or loaded as a module. Do you know if this applies  
> to uart(4)
> as well?

Yes. It's a problem/quirk of the kernel module infrastructure, not
of drivers. Note that it's save to compile-in puc(4) but have sio(4)
or uart(4) loaded as a module. Not the other way around...

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt at mac.com





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