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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: novice questions
Date: 7 Nov 1995 23:48:53 +0100
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Gary E. Grant <ggrant@crl.com> wrote:
>If you are using com3-com4 you are going to have to change the 
>modem address because the serial driver in FBSD does NOT share interrupts.

Err, actually because Little Blue botched the concept and saved a
single gate, and thus didn't even *allow* for a shared interrupt.

Of course, the sio driver does support shared interrupts, that's the
way how all the (dumb) multiport cards work.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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