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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.magicnet.net!nntp.newsfirst.com!nntp.crosslink.net!newshub.more.net!news.missouri.edu!chumbly!rich From: rich@chumbly.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Adding com3 & com4 Date: 25 Jun 1997 19:54:53 GMT Organization: University of Missouri - Columbia Lines: 12 Message-ID: <5ort2d$1mdi$1@news.missouri.edu> Reply-To: rich@chumbly.math.missouri.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: chumbly.math.missouri.edu X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.1 (NOV) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43519 I have an extra multi-i/o card lying around that can be configured to use com3 and com4 on interrupts 5 and 7. I figure I can put the parallel driver into polling mode and thus avoid conflicts with int 7. It looks like int 5 is already allocated to com3 in the kernel. Are there any difficulties I haven't thought of? Thanks for any advice! Rich -- Richard Winkel