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- From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
- Subject: Re: Changing a Serial Port IRQ Number
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- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.003953.24890@unislc.uucp>
- Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 00:39:53 GMT
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- Bill Woodward (wpwood@queball.austin.ibm.com) wrote:
-
- : How does one go about changing the IRQ that a specific serial port
- : uses. I have a modem on COM3 under DOS running with IRQ 5. When I
- : switch to Linux and boot, the bootup messages say that the IRQ for
- : /dev/ttys2 is 4. Is there a config file I am missing, or do I need
- : to recompile the kernel?
- : Any suggestions happily accepted.
-
- Either #undef the AUTO_IRQ stuff in kernel/chr_dev/serial.c, or use setserial
- to reset the IRQ for the card.
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- Ed Carp erc@apple.com, erc@saturn.upl.com 801/538-0177
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