Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 22:29:09 +0300 From: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@cs.hut.fi> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-sys@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC Message-ID: <199508261929.WAA23325@shadows.cs.hut.fi> In-Reply-To: "Justin T. Gibbs"'s message of 26 Aug 1995 18:53:11 %2B0300
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>Well, asthetics aside, is a serial port on IRQ 9 really *that* common?
IRQ 2 is IRQ 9. For those having a third serial port on an 8 bit card, I
think it is common (Sound blaster, NE2000 card, or LPT2 is on IRQ5).
A large number of internal modems I have seen have been configured on com3,
because practically all multifunction adapters and motherboards with
multifunction capabilities built-in already include com1 and com2.
On basis of this, the kernel on boot floppies should contain a kernel which
knows the third serial port, if FreeBSD is supposed to be easy to install
using a modem and a PPP connection?
com4 I haven't seen, though.
I haven't seen any hardware getting confused about com probes, is there
something which does this?
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