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Re: Linux & RCX mini-HOWTO- comments/thoughts?
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Sun, 13 Aug 2000 15:10:34 GMT
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Luis Villa <liv@duke.edu> wrote:
> > * Under Windoze/DOS, this somehow doesn't matter - so you can have four
> > serial devices.
> > * Under Linux, this somehow DOES matter - so you can only have two.
> <pouts> That's unusual. I trust our gurus to be better than theirs. :)
I'm not sure this is true. In the kernel compile options, under "Extended
dumb serial driver options", there is a choice for "Support for sharing
serial interrupts". There's also a "Support more than 4 serial ports"
option.
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