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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!chi-news.cic.net!uwm.edu!homer.alpha.net!mvb.saic.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: novice questions Date: 7 Nov 1995 23:48:53 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 14 Message-ID: <47onol$k42@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <47hm7s$lgm@crl5.crl.com> <47jcj2$l5p@crl.crl.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Gary E. Grant <ggrant@crl.com> wrote: >If you are using com3-com4 you are going to have to change the >modem address because the serial driver in FBSD does NOT share interrupts. Err, actually because Little Blue botched the concept and saved a single gate, and thus didn't even *allow* for a shared interrupt. Of course, the sio driver does support shared interrupts, that's the way how all the (dumb) multiport cards work. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)