Weston,

> 
> 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?

have you gone into your bios to disable your onboard serial ports?

> 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

shouldn't have to..

> 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>

i haven't manually setup a pnp device in ages b/c I use TurboPnPCfg on
TurboLinux, works like a charm ;p 

later,

justin

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