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- From: William.Wilson@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (William Wilson)
- Newsgroups: misc.handicap
- Subject: Re: Can and can'trehash
- Message-ID: <26352@handicap.news>
- Date: 20 Jan 93 22:16:11 GMT
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- [This is from the Blink Talk Conference]
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- WS> Her computer has four serial ports, but what do you mean by
- WS> disable one of them? Tell me more. I am illiterate about this
- WS> sort of stuff.
-
- Walter,
- I don't know about "illiterate", but unless Donna has a very rare
- computer indeed, she doesn't have 4 serial ports!!!
-
- That is, all Dos computers have the ability to have 4 devices
- addressed as serial ports, or at least so far as I know, but when you
- first get it, usually only 1 or 2 of them are configured. Most new
- computers I've seen have two external comm ports, meaning RS232
- connectors and either 25 pin or 9 pin male connectors, but as with
- everything, this isn't a rule, just a general practice.
-
- Well, if the computer in question has two external ports as I've
- described, one of them is probably set up as comm 1, and the other as
- comm 2. If you configure the modem as comm 2, what you are in essence
- doing as trying to tell the computer it has 2 comm twos, which in most
- cases just ain't gonna work! I've seen it where the modem, when this is
- done, in most ways works, for reasons unbegnownst to me, but most
- definitely, this ain't the route to go.
-
- So then, as I think Chris said, you could configure the modem to
- use com 3 or 4, but then we get into an IRQ problem, as com 3 and com 1
- share the same by default as does com 2 and com 4. For this reason, I
- just think the easiest way out is to disable one of the external ports
- and configure the modem as that one you've disabled.
-
- You know, this is one of those messages I'm leaving where I know
- someone is going to come up and tell me where I'm wrong, as I am for
- sure not an expert in the way of hardware, but this is how I understand
- it at this point. I do know that it is highly unlikely that Donna has 4
- serial ports configured on her system though, so take it from there...
- Willie
-
- ... BlinkTalk is changing the way blind people keep informed!
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