Re: Extra serial ports
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Nico De Ranter wrote:
> for a test setup I need a PC with 4 serial ports (ppp server).
> Can I simply plugin any PCI board with 2 serial ports or will
> I need any hardware specific drivers? I believe this used to work
> fine with an ISA board with 2 serial ports but I have never tried
> a PCI version and I can only find PCI serial boards nowadays.
> I guess it should be fine but it would be nice if somebody could
> say "Hey, I tried it and it works without problems".
I would also like to hear the answer to this. I have tried it some time
ago but in the end removed the extra serial card because I never could get
all the serial ports to work. I suppose there may have been IRQ clashes
which I did not know how to solve.
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