From owner-cvs-sys Sat Aug 26 12:29:22 1995 Return-Path: cvs-sys-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id MAA27414 for cvs-sys-outgoing; Sat, 26 Aug 1995 12:29:22 -0700 Received: from hutcs.cs.hut.fi (hutcs.cs.hut.fi [130.233.192.2]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA27407 ; Sat, 26 Aug 1995 12:29:17 -0700 Received: from shadows.cs.hut.fi by hutcs.cs.hut.fi with SMTP id AA16791 (5.65c8/HUTCS-S 1.4); Sat, 26 Aug 1995 22:29:09 +0300 Received: (hsu@localhost) by shadows.cs.hut.fi (8.6.10/8.6.10) id WAA23325; Sat, 26 Aug 1995 22:29:09 +0300 Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 22:29:09 +0300 Message-Id: <199508261929.WAA23325@shadows.cs.hut.fi> From: Heikki Suonsivu To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Cc: cvs-sys@freefall.FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: "Justin T. Gibbs"'s message of 26 Aug 1995 18:53:11 +0300 Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Otaniemi, Finland Sender: cvs-sys-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >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? -- Heikki Suonsivu, T{ysikuu 10 C 83/02210 Espoo/FINLAND, hsu@cs.hut.fi home +358-0-8031121 work -4513377 fax -4555276 riippu SN