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

From: Paul G. Tobey [eMVP] (ptobey)
Date: 09/27/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:03:03 -0700

Build a debug version of the OS and actually trap the debug messages (you
may have to turn the debug serial port back on for this, of course).

Paul T.

"Bhavin Shah" <bhavinmshah@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:411fd11c.0409270942.30a03125@posting.google.com...
> 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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