Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 11:28:30 GMT From: "lachlan kanaley" <dunaedain@hotmail.com> To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: serial cards Message-ID: <19990917112831.63347.qmail@hotmail.com>
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hello I'm trying to attach a terminal to my computer, but I would like to use my modem at the same time. however, My one free irq cannot be used by the serial card, which can use irq's 3-6. I know that in windows com1 can share an irq with com3 on the second card, and com2 can share one with com4. this does not seem to be possible under FreeBSD, according to the sio man page, hence only the first two com ports work, with the other two not loading because of an irq conflict, despite being compiled into the kernel with the shared irq's. if anyone knows how I could get these 4 com ports to work I would be greatly appreciative. Can the com ports share irq's with other devices? Could you please CC the message to me as im not on the mailing list. here is the setup of my system. irq hardware 00 system timer 01 Keyboard 02 Programeable interrupt controller 03 com4 04 com3 05 AWE 32 Soundcard 06 Standard FDD Controller 07 Printer Port LPT1 08 System CMOS/Real time clock 09 UNUSED 10 Standard IDE/ESDI HDD Controller 11 PCI/VGA Display Adaptor 12 Ne2000 ethernet card 13 Numeric Data Processor 14 Primary IDE Controller 15 Standard IDE/ESDI HDD Controller It is a p166/32M ram dual boot windows wd0s1 and FreeBSD wd0s2, using the BSD boot loader second HDD wd1s1 - dosfat IDE cdrom vt320 dumb terminal thanks lachlan ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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