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Re: [ECS] CallerID-Int-A Peter Kraus Fri, 11 Sep 1998 00:27:04 GMT

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 Fri, 11 Sep 1998 00:27:04 GMT
On Thu, 10 Sep 1998 15:01:21 +0000, you wrote:
>Sounds simple enough to me, but I'm being told all kinds of things,
>including
>even if it's possible. I got 4 com ports in and functional only to get
>my Zoom 28.8
>Comstar tech to tell me it needs either com 3 or 4 to function
>correctly. I have them currently
>occupied. 
>Does anyone have any insight or leads where I can get reliable info on
>com ports?
>How many can you have? Does an internal modem have to use 1-4? 

I run ecsw on a 486. it is configured with 6 com ports. they are as below:

port	irq	io	function
1	4	3f8	zoom
2	3	2f8	available
3	15	3e8	cm11a
4	7	250	2 hai thermostats
5	11	258	8 serial temp sensors
6	12	260	available

the challange is in determining what the comport hardware can run at, what is unused
in
the pc hardware and then telling windows what YOU have decided. My challenge with the
configuration was when the comport hardware manufacturer for ports 3-4-5-6 misprinted
the
io ports in the manual. When i added my internal zoom i configured it for standard com
1
which resulted in a conflict with the existing com1, i then deleted the definition for
com1 in the control of windows and then disabled the hardware for com1 and then booted
with a functional zoom. tech support usually does not understand com port configuration
and even less about how to help someone over the phone. do not give up, just find the
open
interupts and ioports and fill them.

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