Re: 16 bit ISA serial card on Solaris 9 x86
From: Andrew Gabriel (andrew_at_cucumber.demon.co.uk)
Date: 01/30/04
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Date: 30 Jan 2004 21:10:29 GMT
In article <bve7td$rkboc$1@id-222939.news.uni-berlin.de>,
synospam <syn_NOSPAM_uw@hotmail.com> writes:
>
> Ahhh finally it now works !!! First I had problems because the card was
> on IRQ 9 for COM4, Solaris wouldn't boot anymore, just hangs after the
> kernel version line. So then what I did is deactivated the parallel port
> and changed COM4 on the serial card to use IRQ 7. With IRQ 7 it works
> well. I've now got /dev/cua/a,b,c,d ! Btw: this card has jumpers to
> configure it's IO and IRQ setings. I would like to thank you Anderew for
> your detailed explanations they were very helpfull !!
Excellent.
By the way, the asy(7D) driver supports up to 10 ports, and not just
4 as it says in the man page. However, the hardware interface to the
standard UARTs used in x86 PC's isn't very efficient, so I would not
expect it could drive a such a number at the higher speeds.
-- Andrew Gabriel
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