Doc. # 1-0000111
Date Updated 11-03-2004 Date Created 07-27-2000
Document Type Knowledge Base Related OS
Related Product MIC-2610/ PCL-740/ PCL-741/ PCL-743/ PCL-745/ PCL-746+/ PCL-749/ PCL-840/ PCL-849/ PCM-3610/ PCM-3612/ PCM-3640
How to install ISA ICOM card under OS/2?
Solution:
Because OS/2 doesn't support IRQ sharing. you'd better set different IRQ for each port. There's no special COM port driver for OS/2, so you can use default device driver "COM.SYS" to add extra COM port by edit CONFIG.SYS like the following example: DEVICE=C:\OS2\COM.SYS (3,03E8,5,d,t) (4,02E8,10,d,t) This line will set up COM3 at IO 3E8 IRQ 5, and COM4 at IO 2E8 IRQ 10. Syntax: DEVICE=PATH\COM.SYS (COM, Address, IRQ, BAD_INT, FIFO) COM => comm port number ( 1 to 4 ) Address => base address of comm port IRQ => interrupt setting for comm port, make sure no conflict with other devices BAD_INT => what to do while bad interrupt i => ignore d => disable this comm port p => post to application FIFO => comm port supports FIFO or not t => true f => false