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Date:      Sun, 18 Jul 1999 06:23:52 GMT
From:      "lachlan kanaley" <dunaedain@hotmail.com>
To:        FreeBSD-Newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   FreeBSD, serial cards and a vt320 
Message-ID:  <19990718062353.58816.qmail@hotmail.com>

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hello

Ive been trying to connect an old vt320 dumb terminal to my computer, and 
have finally got it working quite well.  however, it uses the 25 pin serial 
port needed for my modem.  I bought an old serial interface card, and after 
mucking about for ages with the jumpers i got that to work, at least in 
windows.  So i know it works.

I know that irq 2 is used by the irq manager or something, and irq 5 is 
soundcard.  now irq 3 and 4 are  used by com1 and 2.  the card only lets com 
ports be on these irq's.  Using other irq's that the card is not set up to 
use sends information very slowly to the vt320, but it is quite useless.  
However i have been told that com1 can share an irq with com3, and com2 with 
com4.  When i use the kernel configuration program (boot -c) to set it up 
like this it complains of conflicts and disables the second two com ports.  
Thats no good either.

can anyonoe help?
It would be greatly appreciated.

lachlan


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