Oops... I see the problem. The serial devices were using all of the "normal"
port addresses (ie 0x03f8, 0x02f8, etc...). And 0x0200 was being used by my
sound blaster game controller. I never use the thing (keyboard gives plenty
o' gaming fun) so I took it out. But I'd still like to know about autoconfig
and serial devices and such. Any repositories I can check out?
Weston Sewell wrote:
> I have a DiamondMM Supra Express 33.6k PNP modem I'm trying to
> configure. But I can't get the thing to work. No matter what settings
> I use I get a conflict on the IO port:
>
> "Fatal - resource conflict allocating 8 bytes of IO at 2E8 (see
> isapnp.conf)"
>
> Of course this is just one of the many messages. Seems no IO port is
> good enough for it. I've tried every resource that pnpdump output for
> me. I looked in /proc/interrupts to be sure not to try any IRQ's that
> conflict. I looked in /proc/ioports to try and track down the io
> conflict. Some of the ports like the 2e8 above, are only used by
> "seraial (auto)"... can't I make that go away, I want a modem to appear
> instead of a useless serial port... or am I going about this from the
> wrong angle?
>
> THen I remembered, from when I actually had this working long, long ago,
> that I had to use setserial. So I tried some of the non-serial ports
> like 0200 but it gives me the same error. The only thing even close is
> 0220. The descriptive lines in my isapnp.conf file that was output by
> pnpdump, say that the card needs 8 IO addresses... so should that only
> be 0200-0208?
>
> Any help is appreciated... I'd really like to get to the bottom of this
> whole serial port thing and how it all works... so any resources are
> greatly appreciated. As are quick miracle answers <grin>
>
> weston
>
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