[H-GEN] how many modems

[Everist, Geoff]

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You should be able to pick up a UART based 4 port serial card cheap, or
alternatively use your built in serial ports (com 1 & 2) and a 2 port serial
card (com3 & 4) (which you should have no trouble finding...even Dick Smith
stocks them AFIAK). Nowdays most serial cards allow you to jumper IRQ's so
they are > 9, so you should be left with enough interrupts. If not, disable
the parallel port and use IRQ 4,3,5 and 2 (mapped to 9). You can use 7
instead of 5 if necessary, but I can't remember what other devices commonly
use this interrupt.

We use this scheme at work, and it has given us no problems at all.

In my humble experience, I have found that internal modems tend to suck,
although they may have made some improvements of late.

HTH,

Geoff Everist

> -----Original Message-----
> From: staeci at yahoo.com [mailto:staeci at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, 7 January 2000 13:37
> To: general at lists.humbug.org.au
> Subject: [H-GEN] how many modems
> 
> 
> ok, boss wants a machine with four modems for users to
> dial in to but doesn't want to spend bucks on multi-
> serial port card.  So is it possible to have two modems
> on a com port each and two internal (probably isa) modems
> and what complications do I have in doing this.
> 
> This is under either redhat or debian.
> 
> All help appreciated and reciprocated where possible.
> 
> --
> Darrin Mison
> -- 
> You can't break eggs without making an omelet.
> 

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