kern/147082: [uart] Serial ports unusable

[Mayo Jordanov]

Hi Andy,

Thanks for the suggestion. I have all my ports mapped directly as you have, and I also tried setting the bios to reserve the IRQs so nothing else gets to use them.

Thank you for the suggestions and keeping an eye on this.
mayo

On 2010-06-04, at 16:43 , Andy Farkas wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 5:00 AM, Mayo Jordanov <mayo at oyam.ca> wrote:
>> 
>>  One more report, I loaded FreeBSD 6.4 on this machine, and the serial =
>>  ports work without any problems.=
>> 
> 
> Hi Mayo,
> 
> You might remember that I was having this problem as well, no output on
> serial ports, on my HP ProLiant ML 100 box.
> 
> I solved it by going into BIOS and explicitly setting the COM ports to
> 3F8/4 and 2F8/3. They were set to AUTO before. As a side note, when set
> to AUTO, COM2 did not show up in dmesg.
> 
> What are your BIOS settings?
> 
> -andyf