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- From: 12100z@d1.dartmouth.edu (Tom Buskey)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Adding a serial port for 16550 chip
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.150618.28311@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 15:06:18 GMT
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- Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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- I've got a machine with 16450 UARTs and I'd like to replace one of them
- with a 16550. The board has the serial port chips integrated w/ the
- rest of the system so the UARTs are not only non-socketed, they're
- integrated in a chip w/ several other funtions. The machine is a
- Gateway 2000 w/ a micronics local board MB. The bios will let me change
- the standard ports to com3 & com4, change thier interupts, addresses, or
- disable them altogether.
-
- Are there any good (& cheap) serial port cards out there? I can add a
- serial port card & put my chip on that & disable the MB's serial ports.
- I need something that can work in an OS/2 or Unix enviroment so interupt
- conflicts can be a problem. I have a card that works fine w/ DOS, but
- locks up OS/2. The way motherboards have everything built in today, I'm
- sure there are others out there w/ a similar problem. Thanks in
- advance.
-
- Tom Buskey 12100z@d1.dartmouth.edu
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