From: Brandon S. Allbery (bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org)
Date: 05/31/93 

From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Subject: Re: [Q] Serial ports 0/2 and 1/3 don't work at the same time
Date: Mon, 31 May 1993 23:29:05 GMT

In article <STEVEV.93May31120435@miser.uoregon.edu> stevev@miser.uoregon.edu (Steve VanDevender) writes:
>and COM3 on IRQ4 conflicted. The only solution is to change the
>IRQ assignments so that all serial devices you intend to use
>simultaneously have different IRQs. In my case I was able to
>rejumper COM1 to IRQ 5.
>
>You will probably also have trouble with running both parallel
>printers on IRQ 7 at the same time.

Only if he tries to turn on interrupt-driven output on both printers. The
default is polled, and SLS doesn't include the lpcntl program to change it.

++Brandon 

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