Ok......
I just stripped my PC down. So the list will be a little shorter :}
PC = An old Packard Bell (812CD)
Modem = Gateway Telegraph 33.8 (no manual included)
PS/2 mouse
I took out the soundcard and the NIC.
I'm running RH 6.1
Kernel 2.2.12-20
So basically nothing else is in the ISA slots. No PCIs. Just the bare
system. I'm
sorry I am still a little confused on what makes a serial port a serial port.
ISAs, PCIs, can be serial ports??? Internal CDROMs?? PS/2 mouse isn't on
a serial
connector so that counts that out. Monitor and Keyboard are on their own port
right???
Ray Olszewski wrote:
> This thread is getting long and ... well, thready, so it might be helpful
> if, in your next message, you posted a terse summary of what your hardware
> setup is. Also remind us of what distribution and version of Linux you are
> using, and what kernel version ("uname -a").
>
> Do you have other serial ports in the system? Either an add-in card or on
> the motherboard? If you do, likely you already have a "Comm1" -- that is, a
> serial port using IRQ 4 and io address 0x3F8. If so, it will conflict with
> the modem on that same IRQ/io.
>
> If you don't have other serial ports, it is unlikely that anything else is
> using that IRQ/io pair. Some Ethernet cards use IRQ 3, which conflicts with
> COM2 (ttyS1), but IRQ 4 is almost always a serial device.
>
> At 06:56 PM 12/21/99 -0700, John Starkey wrote:
> >Ahhhh....
> >
> >The jumpers were set for PnP (but I turned that off in the setup (F2 at Boot).
> >
> >I set them to Comm1, which was the easiest. I wasn't sure about the
> >diagram. No
> >jumpers was PnP and all jumpers was Comm1. It was on the back so
> >depending on
> >how you turned the card over you could read the other two options backwards.
> >
> >So now I will switch minicom to ttyS0. But am I going to interfere with
> >anything else? Should I pull the other cards to determine how they are
> >set. I
> >assume you can conflict pretty easily this way.
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> Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
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