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echo: os2prog
to: Jeff Lutkus
from: Darin McBride
date: 1996-02-19 19:16:16
subject: Com3

JL> I've been trying to get OS/2 to recognise my modem on 
 JL> Com3, but it does not accept any commands in OS/2.  My 
 JL> sio line in config.sys looks like this...

 JL> device=g:\sio\sio.sys (COM1:38400) (COM3,,IRQ2)

 JL> I have tried many different meathods of configuring it, 
 JL> but SIO always tells me that Com3's at IQR9, and I 
 JL> cannot make use of it in OS/2.  My modem on Com 1 works 
 JL> fine in both DOS and OS/2, the modem on Com3 only works 
 JL> in DOS.

This probably shouldn't be in the programming echo... simply put, IRQ2 *IS*
IRQ9 on AT-compatable computers.  Dumb hardware design somewhere, but try
using:

device=g:\sio\soi.sys (COM1:38400) (COM3)


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