FreeBSD 6.1 & 6.2 hanging and/or spontaneous rebooting

[Joe Vender]

On Friday 26 January 2007 15:04, Derek Ragona wrote:
> Sounds like an IRQ conflict as your serial port is not on IRQ 3.  I would
> look into the BIOS settings, and set the port explicitly for IRQ 3, and not
> automatic if this is possible.
>

The configurable settings in my BIOS setup don't include the ability to set 
the serial port IRQ.

How is FreeBSD able to communicate with the modem if the irq is not set 
correctly?

Joe