Have you tried disabling one of the com ports in BIOS? Sorry if you've
already tried this and it hasn't worked. :-) Seems to me that disabling
serial ports in BIOS should allow you to permanently remove it from Linux.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: Joe Patton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, July 24, 1999 8:25 PM
Subject: [newbie] Still Having Trouble Configuring my internal PNP Modem
> The information provided to me below by Jason was very helpful in
> understanding how to query and configure my serial ports in Linux and
> X-Windows(Thanks, Jason), but I still haven't been able to get the isapnp
> utility to assign a free I/0 port to my internal pnp modem. I need to
free
> up the following resources in order to get my modem working:
>
> 1. One of the I/O ports that is currently in use by com1(cua0),
com2(cua1),
> com3(cua2), or com4(cua3)
>
> 2. One of the IRQ's that is in use by my serial ports(IRQ 3 or 4).
>
> After reading the man pages on setserial, I tried to use the following
> command to disable a serial port:
>
> setserial cua1 uart none
>
> I thought that the above command would disable COM2, and free up it's
> resources so that my internal modem could use them. I tried to run isapnp
> after using the 'setserial cua1 uart none' but the program informed me
that
> there was still a conflict with the I/O port that i specified in my
> isapnp.conf file(the port that I thought I released from COM2).
>
> Is anyone out there using an internal plug-and-play ISA modem successfully
> with Linux?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe Patton
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jason Cotterell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, July 24, 1999 6:50 AM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Need Help Using isapnp, pnpdump, and isapnp.conf to
> configure my PNP internal modem
>
>
> > in console, type "statserial" for each port (cua0,cua1cua2cua3).
> > these are com 123and 4 in windows. using modemtool from consle will let
> > you set a link from whatever cua you choose to /dev/modem
> > so you can select it in Kppp or what ever ppp program you use
> > also use setserial for changing the i/o port irq and uart settings
> > for instance:
> > [root@/dev/modem]setserial cua1
> > [root@/dev/modem](irq:4, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8)
> > now typing in "setserial irq 3" would set /dev/modem to use irq3
> >
> >
>
