On Aug 18, Joost Kooij wrote
>
> Um, I don't think it is a very healthy practice to use irq 2 for a serial
> port.
>
> Irq 2 is called the "cascade interrupt". Pc-xt's, which have only one
> interrupt controller, have 8 irq's, but in at's a second controller is
> cascaded from the primary interr
After finding out what my problem was... I'm sorry for posting this
message *blush* It turned out that my serial port on the back of the
computer was loose not making total contact with the serial cable. I
tightened it up, it worked. Thanks to all who responded.
Just a note for those this may be o
On Sun, 17 Aug 1997, Ricardo Muggli wrote:
> How do I set up a com port in debian that has a non standard irq?
> The port I want to use is 0x2E8 irq2
Um, I don't think it is a very healthy practice to use irq 2 for a serial
port.
Irq 2 is called the "cascade interrupt". Pc-xt's, which have on
How do I set up a com port in debian that has a non standard irq?
The port I want to use is 0x2E8 irq2
This is what I tried.
edited /etc/rc.boot/0setserial and added this line:
${SETSERIAL} -b /dev/ttyS3 irq 2 port 0x2E8 skip_test autoconfig
${STD_FLAGS}
and commented out this line:
#AUTO_IRQ=aut
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