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- From: swisher@cs.utexas.edu (Janet M. Swisher)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: FAQ? Juggling card IRQ's
- Date: 12 Nov 1992 23:03:42 -0600
- Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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- Is there an FAQ list for this group? I don't normally read this
- group, but now I have a question that I'm almost certain has been
- discuessed to death. If there's no FAQ list, please help me out if
- you have experience with this problem:
-
- In a Gateway 486, I want to use COM1 (IRQ4), COM2 (IRQ3), LPT1(IRQ7),
- a Farallon LocalTalk card with LocalTalk PC software and a NE2000
- ethernet card with Clarkson drivers. After having conflicts between
- the two network cards, on the advice of Farallon, I set the LocalTalk
- card to be interrupt driven using IRQ2 (it can also use 3 or 4, but
- they're taken by the serial ports). The default setting of the
- ethernet card is IRQ3, but this conflicts with COM2. It can
- alternatively use IRQ 2, 4 or 5. Since I don't have an LPT2 hardware
- port, I thought IRQ5 would be a safe choice. However, the LocalTalk
- software assigns printer output to the *name* LPT2; when I try to
- print to the printer connected via LocalTalk, I get a message that
- LPT2 is in use by another device. Both common sense and Farallon
- dictate that the LocalTalk software is not actually using LPT2; in
- fact, the same thing happens if I assign the LocalTalk output to LPT3.
- Can anyone help me figure out what is going on here, and what my ideal
- setup for IRQ's for the different cards is?
-
- Thanks for any info.
-
- Janet
-
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