> I'm having some problems getting the AST 4-port driver working.  I'm
> running 1.0A from late May (1.54 com.c).  I've configured the com
> driver as follows:
> 
> com0    at isa? port 0x3f8 irq 4        # standard PC serial ports
> com1    at isa? port 0x2f8 irq 3
> ast0    at isa? port 0x2a0 irq 5        # AST 4-port serial cards
> com*    at ast? slave ? flags 1
> 
> When the system boots up, it finds all 4 UARTs on the board and
> correctly probes them as ns16550's.  However, as soon as ttyflags
> tries to write to the port, the system panics.

This is now fixed.  It was a common bug to all of the drivers for the
multiport cards.  (as previously noted, if you didn't wildcard the
'com' unit of the slaves, it worked fine...)




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