Modem Research (MR) do an inexpensive add-on card which can be set to
give two extra ports. I use COM 3 and COM 4 and IRQs 5 and 9 for
these, but the C1-5010 card supports COM 1-8 OR 9-15, and 11 IRQs. (As
long as you do not pick a combo used by something else).
But as man setserial says, you need to tell Linux what you did ... In
my RedHat machine, I edited /etc/rc.serial to do this at boot-up. SuSE
5.3
has a similar file, /etc/rc.d/serial, for this job.
My only problem with the MR card was convincing Windows 98 (OK I know)
that I really did have two extra ports and that the interrupts were
what I said. But all 4 ports work just fine. And if you have a PS2
mouse you can use all 4 for something else.
Have fun ..
John Crux G3JAG
On 01-Feb-99 robby wrote:
> I need advice to make use 2 additional ports as COM3, and COM4.
> On board, 2 ports (COM1/COM2) exists already.
> Question is what utility I can possibly have, to detect the 2
> additional ports?
>
> Thanks
> robby
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Date: 01-Feb-99
Time: 20:15:33
John Crux
Consultant in product forgery - Asia and
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