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- From: pluto@cs.ucsd.edu (Mark Plutowksi)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: Windows won't work with COM 2 modem?!
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- Date: 19 Aug 92 01:20:55 GMT
- References: <1992Aug14.002744.2386@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> <1992Aug17.182047.14477@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
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- mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- >>Has anyone got the fix to this problem?
-
-
- >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.
-
-
- >--
- >"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- > in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
- >------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
-
-
- Another solution is to change the IRQ that your modem uses.
- If you put it on Com2, it probably uses IRQ #3. You can
- change this (by setting jumpers on the modem card) to let
- the modem use instead IRQ #5. Your modem manual will tell
- you how to set it to use IRQ #5. Or, alternatively, you
- can disable the Com 2 serial port and let the modem continue
- to use IRQ 3.
-
- IRQ 5 is normally used by LPT2, so you won't have a
- conflict if you're not using LPT2. (Change this also in
- your communication s/w if necessary.)
-
-
- = Mark
-
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-