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From: crt@tiamat.umd.umich.edu (Rob Shady)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Modem setup on 386BSD [and a further QUESTION]
Date: 28 May 93 12:44:11 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan
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References: <1993May27.043819.13711@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <CJB.93May28115334@thrip.cs.uq.oz.au>
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cjb@cs.uq.oz.au (Christopher J Biggs) writes:
>>>>>> In article <1993May27.043819.13711@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca>, donzhao@ncc1701 (Don Zhao) writes:
>>I am new to 386BSD. I am trying to setup my modem (14.4 one) on com3 (or com4).Is it possisble and how?
>>If someone could give me a hand, I will appreciate.
>You can't have more than one serial port per IRQ line under the standard
>serial driver. The solution is to set com3 to use IRQ 2 or 5, or get
>Chris Demitriou's com-multiport driver that supports sharing IRQ lines.
Actually, (it's been a while since I've looked at Chris' code), but I think
that it specifically states 'You can NOT use interrupt sharing with
MULTIPLE serial boards', meaning, if you had a DigiBoard or something
similar, it would work, but if you had two standard serial boards, it would
not.
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