From: tytso@athena.mit.edu (Theodore Ts'o) Subject: Re: Fourport support for PL12 Date: 18 Sep 1993 01:02:18 -0400
From: ackad@eis.cs.tu-bs.de (Claude Ackad)
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1993 13:28:22 GMT
Does the fourport support (AST fourport card) exist for the
kernel 099PL12? What are the right settings for the kernel?
Thanx for any hints.
Yes; from the INFO-SHEET:
0.3.3 Supported hardware:
Other hardware: SoundBlaster, ProAudio Spectrum 16, Gravis
Ultrasound, AST Fourport cards (with 4 serial ports), several
models of Boca serial boards, the Usenet Serial Card II, several
flavours of bus mice (Microsoft, Logitech, PS/2).
You will need the setserial version 2.01 to get the AST Fourport serial
ports to be configured (in /linux/sources/sbin on tsx-11.mit.edu).
Configure the AST Fourport cards in enhanced mode, not in compatible
mode, and use separate IRQ's if you have two Fourport cards --- although
the Fourport docs claims that two Fourport cards can share an IRQ, I've
never seen it work. I generally use IRQ 5 and IRQ 2 for my two AST
Fourport cards.
- Ted