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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problems with Com Ports
Date: 24 Jul 1995 12:26:31 +0200
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Christine Maxwell <kaila@crl.com> wrote:

>: From /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC :
>: device		sio2	at isa? port "IO_COM3" tty irq 5 vector siointr
>: device		sio3	at isa? port "IO_COM4" tty irq 9 vector siointr
>
>
>     Thank you... I had forgotten to change the IRQ's in my config 
>file... i'll try that now and hope it works :)  

Uuuh, they don't clash with your sio0 and sio1 settings, i hope?  You
cannot use ordinary com ports with `shared' IRQs, you'll have to
assign distinct hardware lines for each port.
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

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