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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!wupost!uunet!bcstec!dmp3592 From: dmp3592@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Dean M. Phillips) Subject: Re: Help! My modem is COM4! Message-ID: <C54IGv.Fr2@bcstec.ca.boeing.com> Summary: Brief how-to Reply-To: dean@deanstoy.wa.com Organization: Boeing 777 Division References: <1ptc59INN9su@harpo.uccs.edu> Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1993 17:12:30 GMT Lines: 23 Here is a real brief explaination of how to add a com port to 386BSD. Step 1) Address your card appropriately. The standard COM4 setup uses the same interupt as COM2. The com driver does not currently handle this. Therefore make sure that all the com ports that you are going to use are assigned to different I/O ports and interupts. Step 2) Edit /sys/i386/isa/isa.h and add a line that looks like #define COM_x 0x... Step 3) Add a line to your config file in /sys/i386/conf/... which calls out the new port and interupt. Step 4) config, make depend, make, install, boot Thats all there is to it. If you need examples send me email at home where my 386bsd system is and I will try to put something together with a little more detail. -- #include <std_disclaimer.h> Dean M. Phillips 206-294-1024 Boeing Commercial Airplane Group: dmp3592@icdfs.ca.boeing.com Home: dean@deanstoy.wa.com