Re: Help - PCMCIA card disables serial port!

[Peter Cordes <peter@llama.nslug.ns.ca>]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 12:54:37PM -0800, Michael Dickey wrote:
> Inserting my PCMCIA modem/ethernet card disables my serial port. I am sure
> that it is not an irq problem, as they both use different irqs when
> functioning

 Can you get at the serial ports that "disappear" by using setserial to
assign the right port and IRQ to ttyS1, while ttyS0 is the pcmcia modem?

> Before pcmcia card:
> $ cat /proc/tty/driver/serial
> serinfo:1.0 driver:4.27
> 0: uart:16550A port:3F8 irq:4 baud:9600 tx:0 rx:0
> 1: uart:16550A port:480 irq:3 tx:0 rx:0 CTS|DSR|CD|RI
> 2: uart:unknown port:3E8 irq:4
> 3: uart:unknown port:2E8 irq:3
> 
> After inserting card:
> $ cat /proc/tty/driver/serial
> serinfo:1.0 driver:4.27
> 0: uart:16550A port:A80 irq:3 baud:9600 tx:0 rx:0 CTS|DSR
> 1: uart:unknown port:2F8 irq:3
> 2: uart:unknown port:3E8 irq:4
> 3: uart:unknown port:2E8 irq:3
> ...
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