>
> FYI: It seems that if you try to access the serial port on a MB with the
> port disabled, freebsd 4.1 will freeze up solid. Enabling the serial
> console will cause a lock up on boot, and any access to the port will do it
> as well.
This is probably a feature of the board/super-IO chipset in question.
In particular, the port should never have probed successfully if the port
was really "disabled", so you should never have been able to access it in
the first place.
The correct solution, of course, is "don't do that".
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