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- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!davego
- From: davego@halcyon.com (Dave Oliphant)
- Subject: Re: UART
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.190911.25082@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer)
- Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
- References: <sg8swB3w165w@willard.UUCP>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 19:09:11 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- In article <sg8swB3w165w@willard.UUCP> matttrem@willard.UUCP (Matthew Trembley) writes:
- >I've heard that you only need the UART when the modem is external unless
- >you don't have it in the port you put it in.
- >How does one know what kind and if that UART is IN the actual port?
- >
- >--
- >matttrem@willard.UUCP (Matthew Trembley)
- >gatech!vdbsan!willard!matttrem
- >emory!uumind!willard!matttrem
- >Willard's House BBS, Atlanta, GA -- +1 (404) 664 8814
-
- I recently got the program IS16550.ZIP from hobbes (ftp-os2.nmsu.edu);
- its a dos-based program to detect which type of uart is on your serial
- port; I quote the following from the docs:
-
- IS16550 will determine whether an NS16550AN UART is installed in a
- system. It can check serial ports COM1 - COM4. If you do not specify the
- port(s), COM1 will be checked. You can specify one or more serial ports
- in one run of the program.
-
- For example, if your system has two serial ports, you could enter:
-
- IS16550 at COM1 and COM2 ?
-
- Yes, you can type it as a whole sentence if you wish. Or you can make it
- as terse as:
-
- IS16550 1234
-
- to check all four ports.
-
- end quote;
-
- I think its in /pub/os2/all/comm but don't quote me!
-
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