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Re: ttyS0 is irq 4 not 3!

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From: Peter B. West
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1998 00:00
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Ross Litscher wrote:
> 
> Chris Hotte wrote:
> >
> > Keith Colbaugh wrote:
> >
> > > Hi!
> > > When my pc boots it tells me that ttyS00 is irq 4. It is supposed to be
> > > irq 3. It is set that way on purpose 'cuz irq 4 is ttyS
> > > That should be ttyS0 and ttyS2. What do I do to make it find and set
> > > itself correctly?
> >
> > Are you certain? The layout for base address and IRQ for serial ports on a
> > PC is:
> >
> > COM1     3F8,IRQ4
> > COM2     2F8,IRQ3
> > COM3     3E8,IRQ4
> > COM4     2E8,IRQ3
> >
> > And that is the default setup in the rc.d (or whatever) startup script
> > directory for most linux distributions as I have found so far.
> >
> > --
> > Chris Hotte
> > chris@machupo.ml.org
> >
> > Do your part, fight the spam runners!
> > Replace reply address with "chris@machupo.ml.org" in order to reply.
> 
> Is there a program or command that shows which peices of hardware are
> using which IRQ's and any other info such as the com or serial port
> involved?

You can get some basic information by
  cat /proc/interrupts
  cat /proc/ioports

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From: "Peter B. West" <p.west@uq.net.au>
Subject: Re: ttyS0 is irq 4 not 3!
Date: 1998/04/09
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