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Re: Ethernet collision with modem?
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Eli Marmor wrote:
>
> BTW: Is it possible to use more than 2 COMs concurrently? I spent
> 3 hours on that, today. COM1 is used by the mouse, and COM2 by the
> modem. I want to be the "console" of a router, so I configured the
> unused port to be COM4, but it seems tohave collision with IRQs.
> One of about 10-20 characters is got, and the others lost. I did the
> checks with minicom, but there must be something simpler for direct
> communication, is there?
> (I didn't forget to disable the agetty of the tty).
Try putting the modem on IRQ 5/7
And use the IRQ 3 for COM3.
Play with setserial...
- Alon.
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