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From: kaila@crl.com (Christine Maxwell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problems with Com Ports
Date: 26 Jul 1995 11:36:47 -0700
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J Wunsch (j@bonnie.heep.sax.de) wrote:
: Christine Maxwell <kaila@crl.com> wrote:

: >: From /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC :
: >: device		sio2	at isa? port "IO_COM3" tty irq 5 vector siointr
: >: device		sio3	at isa? port "IO_COM4" tty irq 9 vector siointr
: >
: >
: >     Thank you... I had forgotten to change the IRQ's in my config 
: >file... i'll try that now and hope it works :)  

: Uuuh, they don't clash with your sio0 and sio1 settings, i hope?  You
: cannot use ordinary com ports with `shared' IRQs, you'll have to
: assign distinct hardware lines for each port.

Thank you for replying :)  I checked the config file and I had indeed 
forgotten to change the IRQ's in the two lines above.  When I edited them 
and recompiled it worked fine.  I've now got all four com ports running, 
my bbs is online, and my only problem with it really, is letting people 
log in at speeds under 9600  (my ibm easy options 14.4 doesn't seem to 
like slow modems)  I may have to write a modified getty to listen for the 
connect speed and reset to that to avoid speed buffering problems :(

Christine