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<para>As the FreeBSD kernel boots, it will probe for the serial
ports in your system for which the kernel was configured.
You can either watch your system closely for the messages it
prints or run the command</para>
prints or run this command after your system is up and
running:</para>
<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>dmesg | grep sio</userinput></screen>
<para>after your system is up and running.</para>
<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>dmesg | grep -E "^sio[0-9]"</userinput></screen>
<para>Here is some example output from the above command:</para>
<programlisting>sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa
<programlisting>sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa
sio1: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0
sio1: type 16550A</programlisting>
<para>This shows two serial ports. The first is on irq 4, is
<para>This shows two serial ports. The first is on IRQ&nbsp;4, is
using port address <literal>0x3f8</literal>, and has a
16550A-type UART chip. The second uses the same kind of chip
but is on irq 3 and is at port address <literal>0x2f8</literal>.
but is on IRQ&nbsp;3 and is at port address <literal>0x2f8</literal>.
Internal modem cards are treated just like serial ports &mdash; except
that they always have a modem <quote>attached</quote> to the
port.</para>
<para>The <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel includes support
for two serial ports using the same irq and port address
for two serial ports using the same IRQ and port address
settings in the above example. If these settings are not
right for your system, or if you have added modem cards or have
more serial ports than your kernel is configured for, just