RE: reconfiguring a serial port -- please help
Does linux allow you set i/o and interrupts for each serial port? Win/dos
has a tendecy to share com1/com3 and com2/com4 in a way that you can't use
paired coms at the same time.
--Dano
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Black [SMTP:rblack@cyberus.ca]
> Sent: Monday, February 08, 1999 11:11 PM
> To: Debian User
> Subject: reconfiguring a serial port -- please help
>
> Hi all
>
> I am trying to reconfigure my serial ports and am having no luck. At
> the moment, I have my mouse on /dev/ttyS0 and an internal modem on
> /dev/ttyS1.
>
> What I want to do is put my modem on /dev/ttyS2 IRQ7 so that I can use
> the built in serial board (that I presume exists on my mother board) on
> /dev/ttyS1 (irq 3) for other stuff.
>
> First I changed the jumpers on my model to COM3 IRQ 7 (an unused IRQ)
> and added the following line in /etc/rc.boot/0setserial
>
> ${SETSERIAL} -b /dev/ttyS2 irq 7 port 0x3E8 skip_test autoconfig
> ${STD_FLAGS}
>
> and modifiyed my peers script for my dialup to look at ttyS2. Nothing.
> The modem did not so much as beep.
>
> Next I tried to change the interupt back to 3 (the original for
> /dev/ttyS1 just in case it was irq 7 that was the problem). Nothing.
>
> Finally, I tried to set the model to COM2 IRQ 7. Still nothing!
>
> It appears that the only setting that works is COM2 IRQ 3 :-(
>
>
> My motherboard is an intel triton EXP8551, my modem is some clone (it
> doesn't appear to have a brand name), and I'm using kernal 2.1.125.
>
> Help would be vastly appreciated.
>
> TIA
>
> Richard
>
>
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