From: Joshua Hudson (joshudson@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Aug 17 2001 - 19:42:13 CEST
>From: "Jef" <jknoors@zonnet.nl>
>On 16 Aug 2001, at 8:23, Joshua Hudson wrote:
>
> > >From: "Jef" <jknoors@zonnet.nl>
> > >
> > >Dear Fellows,
> > >The best solution might be to redirect your com2 port to your
> > >modem device. The make a serial link from muLinux to com2 and
> > >use muLinux to Dial/connect.
> > >The programm that would redirect com2 to i.e. com3 must be
> > >bidirectional.
> > >
> > >This would solve the problem for the whole "Winmodem-
> > >communitie"
> > >
> > >Greetings, Jef
> > >P.S. I don't have any C++ experience, just the idea's.
> > >
> > >mail to: jknoors@zonnet.nl
> >
> > Sorry, but winmodems do not have a COM port.
> >
>
>I have an E-tech PCI56RW, it's on com3 (although my machine
>has only two com-ports)
>The modem uses IRQ 11 and adress 03E8-03EF (=com3)
>The modem emumerator uses IRQ 11 and Adres E800-E807
>
>The third comport is emulated by the modem and works also with
>DOS programs but not in real DOS-mode, and has IRQ 4, adress
>03E8
>The program that emulated this is called: TurboCom (TM)
>So, redirecting the com-ports seems possible to me.
>Jef
>
It can be done if TurboCom will remain loaded, but the redirector
will be better written in assembly because it will talk to BIOS all
of the time.
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