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- From: crs0794@inforamp.net (Geoffrey Welsh)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: can ibm architecture support two internal modems?
- Date: 22 Mar 1996 23:29:39 GMT
- Organization: InfoRamp Inc., Toronto, Ontario (416) 363-9100
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- References: <WERNER.96Mar18100602@asta.mc.ab.com>
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- In article <WERNER.96Mar18100602@asta.mc.ab.com>,
- werner@asta.mc.ab.com (tim werner) wrote:
- >working. The docs for the new card say that COM3/IRQ5 is really COM7.
- >
- >I don't know what that means. Is it COM3 or COM7? And how do I change
- >which /etc files to reflect that difference.
-
- Everyone has a different idea of what COM3 is. IBM said it was a UART at 3E8H
- using IRQ4, but that conflicts with COM1's IRQ usage. My hardware background
- says that COM3 is a UART at 3E8H no matter what interrupt it uses, which sort
- of fits in with the PS/2's idea of using IRQ5 (or was it 2/9?) for COM3.
- Windows seems to call the third UART it finds according to a specified search
- pattern COM3, no matter what its I/O and interrupt settings are.
-
- As far as Linux goes, if it says that a modem at 3E8H using IRQ5 should be
- called COM7 and your modem is configured that way, then call it COM7. SCO
- XENIX/UNIX wouldn't bother giving COMx names to serial ports anyway; tty2A,
- anyone?
-
- >Furthermore, when I tried to disable the second serial port on my I/O
- >card, and have both internal modems installed at the same time, there
- >seems to be some kind of IRQ contention, even though I thought that was
- >sorted out.
-
- Please note that disabling a serial port doesn't always physically disconnect
- the interrupt request driver from the I/O bus. Ideally, your card has a
- different jumper position for each potential interrupt and no jumper means no
- IRQ line connection.
-
- It's also possible that the conflict is not with IRQs; it may be an I/O port
- conflict, an electrical load or interference problem on the I/O bus, etc.
-
- >Here is my current configuration, I think:
- >
- >I/O card:
- > serial port 1: COM1 / IRQ 4
- ^^^^
- Please don't call it COM1; call it 3F8.
- > serial port 2: disabled (no jumper, instead of selecting COM2 or COM4)
- > printer IRQ: 7
- >
- >Internal modem 1 (14.4k):
- > COM3 / IRQ5
- ^^^^
- 3E8?
-
- >Internal modem 2 (28.8k):
- > COM2 / IRQ3
- ^^^^
- 2F8?
-
- Good luck!
-
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