Unable to configure CE.NET for more than 3 serial ports.

From: Bhavin Shah (bhavinmshah_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/27/04 

Date: 27 Sep 2004 10:42:43 -0700

Hi,

I have a hardware which has six serial ports and I was able to use
this and configure it with the CE 3.0. But in CE.NET I am not able to
use more than 3 serial ports.

I have already disabled the COM1 debug port by modifying the Debug.C
file. It seems the trick is how to use the port base addresses found
at the start of platform.reg file. I am really not sure how do those
addresses work.

My hardware settings are
COM1 - IRQ4 - SysIntr 14 - 0x3F8 ( Works )
COM2 - IRQ3 - SysIntr 13 - 0x2F8 ( Works )
COM3 - IRQ9 - SysIntr 19 - 0x3E8 ( Works )
COM4 - IRQ6 - SysIntr 16 - 0x2E8 ( Fails !! )
COM5 - IRQ7 - SysIntr 17 - 0x280 ( Fails !! )
COM6 - IRQ14 - SysIntr 24 - 0x2C0( Fails !! )

I checled in the driver and it seems to fail when the
InterruptInitialize function in the StartDispatchThread is called for
COM4,COM5 and COM6.

Any help with what could be wrong will be highly appreciated.

Thanks,
Bhavin

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