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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 08:34:34 +0200
From: Gunter Loos <Gul@ngonet.be>
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Doug White wrote:
>
> On Tue, 23 Jul 1996, Gunter Loos wrote:
>
> > I have recently bought a simple serial card (two ports)
> > for my freebsd 2.1 system. Now it appears they have the
> > same irq's as the existing ports, and I can't seem to
> > get them up and running.
>
> Well, that is no good; FreeBSD won't let you share interrupts.  Change the
> jumper settings on the card so all ports have different IRQs.  Then
> configure the kernel as appropriate.
> *WHAT* ? And Dos can? :-)But it's no good: only 3 and 4 are "jumpable". Stupid card. Boooooo.

Gul.