From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Aug 3 9: 8:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (law-f314.hotmail.com [209.185.131.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8FB351540C for ; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 09:08:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dunaedain@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 58817 invoked by uid 0); 18 Jul 1999 06:23:53 -0000 Message-ID: <19990718062353.58816.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 202.139.54.18 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Sat, 17 Jul 1999 23:23:52 PDT X-Originating-IP: [202.139.54.18] From: "lachlan kanaley" To: FreeBSD-Newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD, serial cards and a vt320 Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 06:23:52 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message