Re: [aclug-L] HELP..modem problem..port already assigned.

[Michael Holmes <maholmes@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg House wrote:

> >I suggest the use of Redhat 6 instead of Linux 6.
>
> Yeah, while the rest of us are running 2.2, or maybe 2.3 for the bolder of
> us, Mike's blazing into the stratsphere of Linux pre-releases with pre6.0.
> <g>
>
> This kind of thing is why I still love PC cards with jumpers on 'em. You set
> the resources it uses and you don't have any conflicts (unless you made a
> mistake). This plug & play stuff always seems to be problematic.
>
> Mike, one option might be to go into the bios and disable another device,
> like maybe COM2 or LPT2, to free up an IRQ & COM port that you can
> consistantly get. I had to do that on one system I worked on. Kind of a
> weird deal on that one, 'cause the modem had straps for COM/IRQ, but it only
> let you use certain ones. I had to a couple of onboard devices which
> fortunately weren't being used, so I turned 'em off and swiped their
> identity. Maybe you could do something like that.
>
> Greg

Thanks for the laugh!  2.3x.x was just too old for me!!  ha ha

mike