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- From: nyet@cco.caltech.edu (n liu)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: BUG in 0.99[p1] kernel config script and Re: Serial driver issues
- Date: 25 Dec 1992 09:05:03 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
- Lines: 49
- Message-ID: <1heirvINN3gr@gap.caltech.edu>
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- joergp@gmd.de (Joerg Prust) writes:
-
-
- >As far as I read from recent news, these cannot share the same IRQ-lines.
- >The last weeks there have been some postings regarding multiport cards,
- >but with a little soldering, you can use IRQ's 10 to 12 with every
- >off-the-shelve short (8 bit) card! I read about this in the German
- >computer magazine c't (jan '93) and intend to try that for Linux.
- >You "just" have to disconnect the IRQ3/4 lines of one card and connect
- >them to the pins D3 and D4 of the upper part of the slot connector, which
- >drive the IRQ10 and IRQ11 lines (i.e.).
- >To do this, you only need a card which fits into the 16-bit-part of the
- >AT-bus-slot and a few inches of wire (I will recycle an old CGA card...).
- >The only problem might be to find the IRQ lines on the serial card, but most
- >of them have jumpers to set the IRQ's. These can be left open and will be
- >the points where the new connector has to be attached to.
-
- >Of course this should ONLY be done if you are not afraid of
- >hardware-hacking and know what you are doing!!!
-
- Cards CAN be connected to the same IRQ.. its just that your system won't
- know which one called the interrupt and won't service the right card all
- of the time. Under DOS this is occasionally fine, but under Linux you want
- to be able to all of the devices simultaneosly.
-
- As far as hardware diddling goes, my io card jumpers are set up like this:
-
-
- 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18
- GAME PARALLEL-->lpt2 com2<--SERIAL2->com4 irq7 irq4<--SERIAL2
- | | ^ | ^ ^ |
- v v | v | | v
- enable lpt1 com1<--SERIAL1-->com3 irq5<--PARALLEL SERIAL1-->irq3
- 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17
-
- So I took off the serial irq jumpers, set 10-12 and 7-9, and wire wrapped
- 11 to 15 and 14 to 18.
-
- I pulled off the parallel 1 jumper in a weak attempt to disable the address
- decoding, but linux still thinks its there.
-
- However, the setup did seem to work, but the lpt thing bothers me.
-
- So the question here is how to disable the lpt port so com3 and 4 can use
- irq 5 or 7.
-
- Ideas?
- --
- nyet@cco.caltech.edu
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