On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 10:20, Declan Moriarty wrote: > > > > using COM3 for about 9 months. > > > > > > I won't. I imagine that it can also be configured as com 1 or com 2; > > > > Trust me, i tried every bit of setserial magic that i could find. It
[snip] The point behind the original post(er) was that winmodems will not respond to any of the COMx ports. Nor will the very small number of genuine com cards that use pci, but that's an added wrinkle. THE major reasons for pci is to extend the crippled IRQ slots, extend dma beyond the 7 channel : 16 bit address range, and to provide better bandwidth than 16bit ISA. Serial cards (modem or otherwise) fail on all criteria. They can only ever be 8 bit, have no practical use for dma, and irq's 4/3 are welded to serial comms (but not the other way round). Thus the need to make a pci based genuine com card is not there and is more expensive to produce (more gold fingers). Winmodems are an excellent idea if you have under-utilised cpu power. There's nothing illegal in using cpu crunch for dsp processing. Sound has been doing it for years (22% of your cpu useage can be spent processing wav files), prior to voodoo grafix engines (eg) so too for video. I don't like these cpu hungry devices philosphically, because I like things in lego-blocks, not an all encompassing cpu. But, I admire the cleverness and technology behind the winmodem. If you accept the following: 1) an internal 'modem' is wasted on anything but ISA 2) Motherboards will rarely supply ISA slots in future. 3) motherboards will ALWAYS have COM1 & 2' on board' External modems are the *practical*, *permanent*, answer. -- http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
