[plug] Serial port fun

[John Breen]

On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, The Thought Assassin wrote:
> 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.

Yup, that's the way the board's set up. COM5..8  COM1/COM2 are on the mobo and
I don't want to lose them.

The 14 in the text is a typo.

> 
> -Greg Mildenhall
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Regards,

John Breen

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