RE: [Sheflug] RE: Serial ports

["Ross's Mail" <nospam [at] ntlworld.com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: sheflug-bounce@vuw.ac.nz [mailto:nospam [at] vuw.ac.nz]On

comm3, you say? Sounds like it's using port 0x3e8, IRQ 4 to me. Check the
BIOS, go to Peripheral Setup (or similar) and check that COM1: is set to
0x3f8, IRQ4
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i would love to.... trouble is it's a compaq machine and the bios sucks....
doesn't give access to that type of config :-(
-----Original Message-----

This will now fit the defaults setserial expects of COM1:

I have never seen a PNP serial port built in to a mobo. They are always
legacy devices (unless someone else knows better?)
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i thought it was pnp because of the way windows changed the port value and
irq ? it worked fine as both comm3 3e8 irq4 and comm4 3f8 irq 3 under
windows.

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