Re: [TCLUG:23280] USR PCI modem

[John Miller <johndmiller@mn.mediaone.net>]

I have just taken a hardware course and have done assemble language 
programming. To my knowledge modems should be on com1 - 4.  They have irq 
of 4 and 3.  I have never heard of a com 5.  I know that IRQ5 is for lpt 2 
and that IRQ 10 is not dedicated to anything so it is free for the taking 
by anything that needs an IRQ.  I hope this helps

John Miller

At 06:11 PM 10/30/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi again,
>
>My new USR PCI modem (not a winmodem) shows up as COM5 in Win98 with IRQ
>10. Under Linux I've used mknod to create a new entry in /dev for ttyS4
>with what I believe are correct major and minor numbers. Presumably I need
>to make an entry in rc.serial for the serial port, but I see from
>/proc/interrupts that the ide0 has IRQ 10. What would be my best strategy
>here? I'm kind of going by the seat of my pants anyway so I may be totally
>off base.
>
>-Tim
>
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