On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Joe Patton wrote:
> 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
That won't work if the hardware is actually there, if you have a resonably new
motherboard then you most likely have two serial ports built onto the board. If
this is the case, then you will need to disable one of them if they both are
not already being used by an actual device rather the just by the serial
connectors on the back of your computer. How to do that depends on your
computer, most of the newer boards use the bios setup to turn the ports on and
off, this is possibly the case with your machine. Try starting the bios setup
when you boot up (with many bios's that is hitting the Delete key once the
bootup sequence starts) it will depend on your bios as to how to start the
setup. With a Award flash bios the delete key starts the setup program, then
the settings for the builtin ports is in the "peripherals" section, it should
say something like first serial port, second serial port or something like
that, to the right of that is the current settings for each port, toggle the
one you don't need to the disabled possition. That should do it.
John Love
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