From: simon@wise.demon.co.uk (Simon Wise) Subject: Re: Serial: My IRQ is 5 NOT 4! Change? Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 14:54:09 +0000
In article <1993Aug17.203434.163@dg8lav.toppoint.de> kalle@dg8lav.toppoint.de writes:
>Greg Corteville (gcortevi@nyx.cs.du.edu) wrote:
>: I purposely installed COM 3 on my system to have IRQ 5 so that I could use
>: COM 1 and COM 3 on my system at the same time without problems. However,
>: when Linux loads, it thinks its some kind of error and defaults to IRQ 4
>: on COM 3. How can I force it to use IRQ 5?
>
>
>Use SETSERIAL Version 2.x. Linux can't install the serial ports at the boot-up.
>You will find setserial on all servers. (i hope so :-)
>
>Kalle
>
I have 4 Serial ports using IRQ 3,4,7 & 9. Using Setserial auto-irq or
manual the port on IRQ9 is changed to IRQ2. Anyone know why ?.
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