additional com-port

[Bernd Walter]

On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 02:30:57AM +0300, Maxim Mazurok wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 01:21:16AM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote:
> 
> >What is wrong with the second onboard serial?
> >You just have to remove the flags which declare it to be a special
> >debug interface for to kernel.
> >See sio(4) manpage for details on flags.
> 
> hmmm
> sio2 - it's no traditional com-port
> it's ISA Cisco router console (cisco AP-EC)
> i no need second onboard com-port, but i need access to cisco console

And you can't just give it another IRQ?
Cisco should know that IRQ 3 and 4 are typically in use.

> if i deactivated sio1 in SRM, change settings of cisco console to IO_COM2
> and irq 3, can i use next kernel config for worked serial console to freebsd
> and worked console to cisco:
> 
> device          sio0    at isa? port IO_COM1 irq 4
> device          sio1    at isa? port IO_COM2 irq 3
> ?

Yes - that should work.

> and one more: now console to server connected to second com-port on
> board(upper). it's right?

Sorry - I can't follow you here.
The console is always on sio0, which is the upper one on PC164, so
I asume it's also upper on PC164SX.
The lower port needs to be disabled so you can reuse it's IRQ.

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