[plug] Serial port fun

[The Thought Assassin]

On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, John Breen wrote:
> Then we did setserial for each of the ports (like this)
> # setserial /dev/ttyS4 irq 15 uart 16550
> # setserial /dev/ttyS5 irq 12 uart 16550
> # setserial /dev/ttyS6 irq 10 uart 16550
> # setserial /dev/ttyS7 irq 9 uart 16550
> now, ignoring the obvious IRQ conflicts here, that says that the first
> port is COM4 with an IRQ of 14, the second COM5 with IRQ 12 and so on.

/dev/ttyS0 ~= COM1
/dev/ttyS1 ~= COM2
...
/dev/ttyS4 ~= COM5
/dev/ttyS5 ~= COM6

That also looks like a 15, not a 14, but that's probably a typo.

-Greg Mildenhall