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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!nigel.msen.com!max.cybernet.com!mtaylor From: mtaylor@cybernet.com (Mark Taylor) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: [FreeBSD] Multiport COM drivers Date: 4 Mar 1994 00:18:07 GMT Organization: Cybernet Systems Lines: 20 Sender: mtaylor@max.cybernet.com (Mark Taylor) Distribution: world Message-ID: <2l5unv$t54@nigel.msen.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.245.33.3 Keywords: COM MULTIPORT I have a FASTCOMM 4-port serial I/O card to be used on a FreeBSD platform. I was wondering how to set it up to be used by the OS. Is anyone else out there using one of these things? Do I set up special devices in my kernel config? Do I disable the two serial ports on my motherboard, in favor of the 4-port board? Or can I set the IRQs on the board to anything I want, and compile a kernel with settings for it? The board seems to have the option to set it to many IRQ levels and I/O addresses, and even comes with a special ROM which gives each serial chip its own IRQ (I think). What is the multiport option in the kernel for anyway, and how was it intended to be used? (with or without the motherboard's com ports?) -Mark Taylor mtaylor@cybernet.com