PUC rewrite

[Mike Tancsa]

At 06:26 PM 7/25/2008, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:

>On Jul 25, 2008, at 2:30 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>
>...
>>uart0: <Non-standard ns8250 class UART with FIFOs> port
>>0xe500-0xe507 irq 10 at device 14.0 on pci0
>>uart0: [FILTER]
>...
>>uart1: <16550 or compatible> at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
>>uart1: [FILTER]
>...
>
>There's no uart device found (i.e. probed and attached) at port 0x3f8.
>So, there's no uart that can be associated with the console and you
>won't have a /dev/cuau that is opened for/by init(8).


But if I remove the modem, it does appear and work just fine.


>>How can I force the PCI modem *not* to be uart0 so that the onboard
>>com ports show up?
>
>uart(4) deals with the fact that the console may not be associated
>with uart0, so the real problem is not having a uart driver for the
>serial port at 0x3f8.
>
>>uart0: <16550 or compatible> at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on
>>isa0
>>uart0: [FILTER]
>>uart0: console (9600,n,8,1)
>>uart1: <16550 or compatible> at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
>>uart1: [FILTER]
>
>Odd.. Is the 3com configured to take over COM1 or something?

Nope, there is nothing that can be configured on it from what I see.

         ---Mike


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>Marcel Moolenaar
>xcllnt at mac.com
>
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