RE: IRQ Serial Port

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From: Don Streng (DonStreng_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/17/05


Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 08:27:03 -0800

Maybe you should fire up this card with DOS and check out the serial ports to
see what's going on. Once you get it working in DOS just set up CE for the
same IRQ and I/O addresses. If it doesn't work in DOS you've got bigger
problems with this card.

"Andrea" wrote:

> Hi all,
> i have a problem with my board (Advantech PCM-3643). It's equipped
> with 4 serial port but i'm not able to see them from windows ce (on a
> Geode board).
> The problem is that the first board (Geode) has already two serial
> port (0x02F8, 0x03F8) and they works very well, but the second one
> (Advantech) is characterized by 4 serial port with arbitrary address:
> i use the enhance mode so the first port should be at the address
> 0x0240 (as it's written in the manual). I've tried to use the
> following code but it doesn't work:
>
> "SysIntr"=dword:19
> "Irq"=dword:9
> "IoBase"=dword:0240
> "IoLen"=dword:8
>
> On the board there are also some switches to set the interrupt vector
> address (by default it's set to 0x0280), but i don't know how use it.
> In conclusion, i'm not able to address a port on the second board and
> I don't understand where is the error.
>
> Is there anyone that know the solution? Thanks
>



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