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Can you free up an irq by moving your mouse to a bus port ?  The bus 
cards are cheap enough at swap meets and Microsoft mice run on them OK (I 
don't know about others) but your kernel would need to support it.  But 
Dimitri's point is still good: are you actually _using_ com3 ?

Henry Griggs (hgriggs@mpx.com.au) wrote:
: Dimitri Maziuk (emaziuk@alpha2.curtin.edu.au) wrote:
: : They're smart enough to handle several ports using single interrupt.
: : They're not cheap, though.  [Aside: I assume you've checked that your
: : whatever-it-is-on-COM3 doesn't have a jumper to select IRQ]
: 
: I've run out of IRQ channels in my system. By the time I've juggled
: everything between the mouse and the modem and the network card, the
: scanner, the Soundblaster the cdrom and tape backup, there's nothing left.
: Some of the stuff is old, and is very limited in what IRQs they can
: use. I suppose what I should do is replace them with new ones that
: have a bigger range and can use the higher channels. Or replace the
: motherboard and go with the new buses. Or go to SCSI. But the problem
: with that is juggling the money with the mortgage.
: 
: Regards
: 
: Henry
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