Hi Brian and others
I was running a fourport card for a while on vk6bbs but
it used only a single irq (5). My understanding is that each
fourport card has a single irq and each port has a unique
io port address. The other thing is why is there a "^" before
"fourport"?
73
Phil Maley vk6ad
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian J. McCarthy
> Sent: Thursday, 3 February 2000 9:43 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: /dev/ttyS2 and /dev/ttyS3
>
>
> I've created the following init file:
>
> [root@gateway /proc]# cat /etc/rc.d/rc.serial
> SETSERIAL=/bin/setserial
> echo "Configuring serial ports...."
> #
> ${SETSERIAL} /dev/ttyS0 uart 16550a port 0x3f0 irq 4 ^fourport
> ${SETSERIAL} /dev/ttyS1 uart 16550a port 0x2f0 irq 3 ^fourport
> ${SETSERIAL} /dev/ttyS2 uart 16550a port 0x3e0 irq 10 ^fourport
> ${SETSERIAL} /dev/ttyS3 uart 16550a port 0x2e0 irq 10 ^fourport
> #
> echo "done"
>
> This produces:
>
> [root@gateway /root]# setserial -gav /dev/ttyS?
> /dev/ttyS0, Line 0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f0, IRQ: 4
> Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
> closing_wait: 3000, closing_wait2: infinte
> Flags: spd_normal skip_test
>
> /dev/ttyS1, Line 1, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x02f0, IRQ: 3
> Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
> closing_wait: 3000, closing_wait2: infinte
> Flags: spd_normal skip_test
>
> /dev/ttyS2, Line 2, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03e0, IRQ: 10
> Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
> closing_wait: 3000, closing_wait2: infinte
> Flags: spd_normal skip_test
>
> /dev/ttyS3, Line 3, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x02e0, IRQ: 10
> Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
> closing_wait: 3000, closing_wait2: infinte
> Flags: spd_normal
>
> But aprsd and other apps still cannot use any ports except ttyS0.
> Below is
> the output from ioports.
>
> [root@gateway /proc]# cat ioports
> 0000-001f : dma1
> 0020-003f : pic1
> 0040-005f : timer
> 0060-006f : keyboard
> 0080-008f : dma page reg
> 00a0-00bf : pic2
> 00c0-00df : dma2
> 00f0-00ff : fpu
> 01f0-01f7 : ide0
> 02e0-02e7 : serial(set)
> 02f0-02f7 : serial(set)
> 03c0-03df : vga+
> 03e0-03e7 : serial(set)
> 03f6-03f6 : ide0
> ec80-ecff : eth1
> ef80-ef9f : Intel Speedo3 Ethernet
> ffa0-ffa7 : ide0
> ffa8-ffaf : ide1
> [root@gateway /proc]#
>
>
> Brian McCarthy
> N7TUQ
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Thorsten
> Kranzkowski
> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 7:14 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: /dev/ttyS2 and /dev/ttyS3
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 06:36:18PM -0700, Brian J. McCarthy wrote:
> > I have tried to get these serial line added to my Linux machine (RH 6.1
> with
> > 2.2.14). I do not understand what the trouble is.
> >
> > Output from setserial
> > =========================================================
> [...]
> > /dev/ttyS2: Device or resource busy
> > /dev/ttyS3: Device or resource busy
> >
> >
> > =========================================================
> >
> >
> > The card I am adding is http://www.siig.com/io/i_o_expander_4s.html.
> >
> > I am setting port A to 3E8/IRQ4 and port B to 2E8/IRQ3. The unboard
> Serial
> > ports are 3F8/IRQ4 and 2F8/IRQ3. This should be the defaul
> config. Will
> > interrupt sharing work accross different cards? What could I
> do to enable
>
> Both PCI: yes
> onboard ISA: no, never
> both ISA: yes, with hardware modification
> one ISA, other PCI: no
>
> BUT: I think this has nothing to do with that error-message. Can you post
> 'cat /proc/ioports' output?
>
> > these serial ports ??
> >
> >
> > Brian McCarthy
> > N7TUQ
> >
>
> Thorsten
>
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