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Re: Working towards something good*
- Subject: Re: Working towards something good*
- From: Tristan Mumford <xtristan.xmumford@xgmail.xcom>
- Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:01:21 +1100
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Knut Roll-Lund wrote:
> Michael J. Mahon wrote:
>> Tristan Mumford wrote:
>>> I do have serial ports on both ends. Although the serial port on the
>>> PC end
>>> is a precious commodity as there is only one for some reason.
>>
>> There is almost certainly another one (COM2?) inside the case, with no
>> connector attached to the header.
>
> Not on new pc's nowadays. But I'd advice to check. Nowadays they don't
> even have a floppycontroller.
>
> To me it stops being a pc when it lacks this compatibility.
>
> In one pc I'm using at work there is the hardware for COM2 but it isn't
> supported in the bios so then it will get no resources and it can't be
> used.
>
I had to look through the dmesg listing last night. While I was there I
noted it only knows of one serial port. Pity.
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