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- From: rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo)
- Subject: Re: HELP: How do use com3 in LINUX?
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 16:53:07 GMT
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- sundaram@egr.msu.edu (Divya Sundaram) writes:
-
- >I am trying in vain to use a modem at COM3 on my machine. I have
- >my Logitech mouse at com1 and 9600 baud hayes compatible modem at com3
- >(and I have a wd8003 ethernet card at com2). Since com1 and com3 share
- ============================= ?
- >the same IRQ, I would like to know how LINUX deals with this. Would this pose
- >any problems for me - would I be able to use my mouse and my modem also?
-
- I use internal 9600 baud MODEM in COM3 with IRQ5
-
- 1. Change the IRQ for COM3 to, say, 5
- 2. Use 'setserial' program (I think I got it from tsx-11.mit.edu)
- to set /dev/ttys3 to use IRQ5. That's it.
-
- That's it. Works like a charm.
-
- -- budi
- --
- Budi Rahardjo <Budi_Rahardjo@UManitoba.Ca>
- Unix Support - Computer Services - University of Manitoba
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