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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.he.net!stc06.ctd.ornl.gov!fnnews.fnal.gov!not-for-mail From: neswold@spiv.fnal.gov (Richard M. Neswold) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Adding com3 & com4 Date: 09 Jul 1997 15:03:19 -0500 Organization: FERMILAB, Batavia, IL Lines: 18 Message-ID: <v544ta4yovs.fsf@spiv.fnal.gov> References: <5ort2d$1mdi$1@news.missouri.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: spiv.fnal.gov X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.4.37/XEmacs 19.15 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44166 rich@chumbly.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel) writes: > I have an extra multi-i/o card lying around that can be configured to > use com3 and com4 on interrupts 5 and 7. I figure I can put the parallel > driver into polling mode and thus avoid conflicts with int 7. It looks > like int 5 is already allocated to com3 in the kernel. Are there any > difficulties I haven't thought of? S3-based video cards conflict with COM4's I/O address of 0x2e8. Other video cards may have the same restrictions... -- Rich ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Richard Neswold, Accelerator Div./Controls Dept | neswold@fnal.gov Fermilab, PO Box 500, MS 347, Batavia, IL 60510 | voice (630) 840-3454 'finger neswold@aduxb.fnal.gov' for PGP key | fax (630) 840-3093