[Dxspider-support] Com Port Setup

[Rene Olsen]

Hi.

>          Im running the linux version of dx-spider under Mandrake 8.2.
> 
> I have 4 com ports fitted, two on the motherboard and two on an extra card. I
> can only get COM1 IRQ4 and COM2 IRQ3 working. I have set COM3 as IRQ5 and COM4
> as IRQ7 on the plugin board. Both of these IRQ's are available, but linux is
> trying to use COM3 IRQ 4 and COM4 IRQ. Does any know how to change the com port
> irq's within mandrake linux.

I am not sure if this is the 100% right way to go, but it has worked for me on a SuSE 
system.

In /etc/boot.local I had the following:

setserial -a /dev/ttyS2 port 0x3e8 irq 5 autoconfig
setserial -a /dev/ttyS3 port 0x2e8 irq 7 autoconfig

That worked for me.

Vy 73 de Rene / OZ1LQH