Re: Is it possible to force the serial port IRQ's?
Edit your /etc/rc.boot/0setserial file.
Al Youngwerth
alberty@apexxtech.com
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> From: Carlo U. Segre <segre@charlie.cns.iit.edu>
> To: Debian Users List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: Is it possible to force the serial port IRQ's?
> Date: Friday, June 20, 1997 4:15 PM
>
> Hello All:
>
> I have a PPro 200 system which I dual boot between Windows95 and
> Debian Linux (most of the time!). I also have an internal modem
installed
> on COM2 so I have used the BIOS to set the on-board serial port to COM4
> with IRQ 11 (this is an option for my motherboard which I have not seen
in
> others). Under Windows95, the COM4 is properly detected with the correct
> IRQ, in Linux, however, both COM2 and COM4 are autoprobed as IRQ 3.
>
> I have noticed an analogous situation when I disabled the second COM port
> in the BIOS but Linux finds it anyway. It seems that Linux does not pay
> attention to these BIOS settings. Is there any way for me to force it to
> pay attention?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Carlo
>
>
>
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