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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 4 COM ports under FreeBSD 2.0.5 Date: 12 Jan 1996 23:37:20 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4d6rbg$h7c@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <30F5F9A9.41C67EA6@vt.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Ryan Schutt <rschutt@vt.edu> writes: > I changed the ports and IRQ's so that they are all standard. But > this brings up another question: since COM1 and COM3, and COM2 and > COM4 have the same IRQ, will I be able to use them simultaneously? > My goal is to have all 4 ports working simultaneously under FreeBSD. > I have enough IRQ's to do that. FreeBSD requires distinct IRQs for all come ports (except for so- called mulitport cards). The default kernel assumes IRQ 5 and 9 resp. for the sio2 and sio3 (aka. COM3 and COM4) ports. -- 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. ;-)