On Wed, 21 May 1997, William O Ferry wrote:

> Thanks, Brian!
>     Worked like a charm.  Went in the BIOS and disabled COM2 which was
> at the same IRQ (3) as the modem at COM4, and NetBSD had no problems
> seeing the modem after that.  I'm sending this through the PPP
> connection in NetBSD right now.
> 
>     Is there any way to get the shared IRQs working in NetBSD?  It's not
> a big deal, I didn't have anything on COM2.  But it seems a shame to
> have to lose a port because of this.  I don't have any extra IRQs to
> spare.

I remember in Win3.1, you can't do share IRQs, but in Win95 you can.  So 
it must be possible under netbsd.

> 
>     Thanks again!
>                                                 Will Ferry
> 
> 
> Excerpts from mail: 20-May-97 Re: Problems talking to Zoo.. by Brian
> Hechinger@blackhol 
> > this might not be the problem, but this is something i have
> experienced in the
> > past with Linux.  Windows and DOS don't have any trouble sharing IRQs. Linux
> > (and probably all PC UN*Xes) aren't able to do this as well.  if you have
> > a serial port that isn't being used, disable that serial port and set the
> > modem to use the disabled serial port's IRQ & I/O port.  this *should* solve
> > your problem.
> 
> 


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