[2207] in RedHat Linux List
Re: STB 4COM card
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lawrence Houston)
Fri Nov 1 11:41:39 1996
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 11:33:21 -0500 (EST)
From: Lawrence Houston <houston@boyd.geog.mcgill.ca>
To: netside.com!tdukes@felix.geog.mcgill.ca
cc: redhat.com!redhat-list@felix.geog.mcgill.ca
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On Fri, 1 Nov 1996 netside.com!tdukes@felix.geog.mcgill.ca wrote:
> Thanks for the tip. Just a couple of questions about how you
> set it up.
>
> 1) How many COM ports are you using? Its appears by the rc.serial
> you sent there are 6.
>
> 2) Is it necessary for me to diable the COM ports on my motherboard?
If COM1 & COM2 on the Motherboard are kept activated, then I would have a
total of 6 COM Ports with the single STB 4COM Card. With the UARTs on the
Motherboard being ONLY 16450s, my final configuration was actually to
disable the Motherboard's COM2 and rejumper one of STB Ports as COM2
(leaving the remains 3 to share IRQ 10), to support my External 14.4K
Modem.
> 3) Will Red Hat recognize the rc.serial file? If so, where did you
> place it? /etc/rc.d/rc.serial?
Yes that is the correct location for rc.serial! Strange as stock rc files
supplied with Red Hat 2.1, 3.0.3 & 4.0 all use a rc.serial (if exists),
but I could NEVER find one contained in Red Hat Distributions?
> 4) Are all your jumpers on the 4COM card on IRQ 10?
There were initially, until I found that some DOS Apps do NOT support 16
bit IRQs, hence the reason for the above redefinition to COM2 (Linux
certainly did NOT require it)!
> Sorry to ask all these questions, but I'm pretty new to Linux and alot
> of the terminology blows me away.
Seem to remember having found sufficient leads in the Serial-HOWTO. One
final note, most likely you will have to create the special files in the
"/dev" directory:
cd /dev
./MAKEDEV ttyS4 ttyS5 ttyS6 ttyS7
Lawrence Houston - (houston@boyd.geog.mcgill.ca)
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