PCI serial card works on 6.2 but not on 6.3

[Boris Samorodov]

On Tue, 06 May 2008 15:05:07 +0200 Ingeborg Hellemo wrote:
> koitsu at freebsd.org said:
> > Try loading the uart(4) driver, which can also replace sio(4) if I remember
> > correctly. 

> I have now tried both loading the uart4) -driver and kompiled it into the 
> kernel, but the card is still unrecognized:

> pci1: <simple comms, UART> at device 8.0 (no driver attached)

> ~# pciconf -l -v | grep -B 4 UART
> none2 at pci1:8:0: class=0x070002 card=0x00041000 chip=0x98459710 rev=0x01 
> hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'MosChip Semiconductors (Was: Netmos Technology)'
>     device     = 'Nm9845 Parallel/Serial Port Adapter'
>     class      = simple comms
>     subclass   = UART

You may be interested in kern/58953 (the last followup with the
patch):
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=58953


WBR
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