On 17 Nov 1999, John Hasler wrote: john >The information is correct at boot, however, the serial ports can be john >rearranged in the init scripts.
i read somewhere that the kernel just assumes what is what, i know for a fact that the kernel incorrectly identifies my modem which i hardcode to IRQ9 (IRQ2) and it detects the incorrect I/O address as well (forget it off hand i dont have access to the machine from here). during the 5 hour process of trying to get 3 com ports working on different irqs and different I/o addresses i read that. as a result of the misdetection i have to use setserial manually to reconfigure the serial port on the modem found it.. in the setserial manpage, if this is incorrect it should be fixed(?) [from setserial manpage] During the normal bootup process, only COM ports 1-4 are initialized, using the default I/O ports and IRQ values, as listed below. (...) The "standard MS-DOS" port associations are given below: /dev/ttyS0 (COM1), port 0x3f8, irq 4 /dev/ttyS1 (COM2), port 0x2f8, irq 3 /dev/ttyS2 (COM3), port 0x3e8, irq 4 /dev/ttyS3 (COM4), port 0x2e8, irq 3 [end excerpt] nate ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 7:04am up 90 days, 18:38, 1 user, load average: 2.12, 1.92, 1.84
