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From: jan@todonix.ping.de (Jan Wedekind)
Subject: Re: Serial Ports Under 1.1.5.1
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Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 15:36:20 GMT
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Robert Nagy (nagy@turtle.apana.org.au) wrote:
: Hi Folks,

: Under 1.1.5.1 is it possible to get more than 4 serial ports operating?

: I all ready have a 4 port card installed. any efforts to get another 4 
: port card operating have met with failure.

: I'd like to speak with anyone who has managed to get 8 ports running happily.

: In particular I'd like to see what your config file looks like for the 
: extra ports.

Well, (Hi Robert)

we (PING e.V.) 're running our main server (lilly.ping.de) under 1.1.5 
with 13 ports without bigger problems; 
the only prob's we found is, that sometimes while booting some 
of the ports on the 4 port cards are not found :-( an automatic reboot
managed by rc.local helps.

Greetings,

Jan

PS: the interesting part of our config file 'PING'

options         "COM_MULTIPORT"
options         "COM_BIDIR"
#options        "FIFO_TRIGGER=FIFO_TRIGGER_14"

# 1st AST board
device          sio0    at isa? port "IO_AST11" tty flags 0x0301 vector siointr
device          sio1    at isa? port "IO_AST12" tty flags 0x0301 vector siointr
device          sio2    at isa? port "IO_AST13" tty flags 0x0301 vector siointr
device          sio3    at isa? port "IO_AST14" tty irq 4 flags 0x0301 iomem 0x0
2bf vector siointr

# 2nd AST board
device          sio4    at isa? port "IO_AST21" tty flags 0x0701 vector siointr
device          sio5    at isa? port "IO_AST22" tty flags 0x0701 vector siointr
device          sio6    at isa? port "IO_AST23" tty flags 0x0701 vector siointr
device          sio7    at isa? port "IO_AST24" tty irq 3 flags 0x0701 iomem 0x0
1bf vector siointr

# 3rd AST board
device          sio8    at isa? port "IO_AST31" tty flags 0x0B01 vector siointr
device          sio9    at isa? port "IO_AST32" tty flags 0x0B01 vector siointr
device          sio10   at isa? port "IO_AST33" tty flags 0x0B01 vector siointr
device          sio11   at isa? port "IO_AST34" tty irq 7 flags 0x0B01 iomem 0x0
1df vector siointr

# For high speed serial lines.
device          sio12   at isa? port "IO_COM2" tty irq 9 vector siointr

-- 
Jan Wedekind			jan@todonix.ping.de			 (home)
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