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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Windows won't work with COM 2 modem?!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.182047.14477@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Aug14.002744.2386@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 18:20:47 GMT
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- In <1992Aug14.002744.2386@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> apollo@ee.ualberta.ca (Apollo Wong) writes:
-
- >Hi netters,
-
- >My system has the mouse in COM 1 and a 2400 baud in using COM 2. However,
- >since Windows 3.0, I can't use any Windows' communcation program to
- >use the modem port. I set up port 2 as 2400n81 using Control Panel.
-
- >Recently I upgraded to Windows 3.1, hoping the problem will go away, but
- >to my surprise, it is still there. Terminal.exe will not work. Cardfile.exe
- >will hang up the system if I try to use it to dial a number. The only
- >communication program I can use is DOS based (which will lost sync. when
- >I run another DOS program while downloading files).
-
- >Has anyone got the fix to this problem? I noticed that if I pull out my
- >Multi-I/O card, reset my modem to COM 1, then it will work. However, I have
- >to live with my mouse for the moment and I can't change any setting on
- >my Multi-I/O card because I lost my manual on that card.
-
- Your problem is that you have both a modem and a COM port at IRQ3
- (which is what COM2 uses). There is no way to fix this other than by
- changing either the modem or the serial port to another COM port. If,
- as you say, you cannot change the settings on your multi-I/O card,
- then you cannot fix this (the other COM2 is living on the I/O card).
- The only other possibility is if you can set the modem up to be COM3
- or COM4 and use IRQ2 or IRQ5 for it.
-
-
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