Bob Bainbridge wrote in a message on Mon, 20 Apr 1998 at 12:42 to Don 
odall:
 DW> COM 1.  Also, as has already been mentioned,  OS/2 loads the mouse
 DW> driver before it loads the com ports.  The mouse and com ports use
 DW> separate drivers.
I use the mouse on COM3 and irq5 without any problem :-) and have also 2 
modems as COM1 and COM2 ......
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VMOUSE.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\BOOT\POINTDD.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\BOOT\MOUSE.SYS SERIAL=COM3
DEVICE=C:\SIO\SIO.SYS (COM4,INTERNET:2E8,NONE:3)
DEVICE=C:\SIO\VSIO.SYS
Marc Buffet
[Internet marc.buffet@ibm.net] 
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