news@afit.af.mil (04/11/91)
If you find the answer...other than "buy another card" let me know. But, don't sweat it, because for 10$ out of computer shopper you can get a card and add mutiple ports. 1st Lt Peter F. de KAM : How do you know what you know? Graduate Student, Logistics Management : -- Anne Rand Air Force Institute of Technology/LSG : "The Objectivist Epistimology" Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio 45433 : ******************************************************************************* "My Ramblings and Babblings do not represent those of the USAF or the US Gvt." *******************************************************************************
c60b-1eq@web-1c.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson) (04/11/91)
In article <x$bGy=-l1@cs.psu.edu> cho@sol4.cs.psu.edu (Sehyeong Cho) writes: >In article <1264@sol.deakin.OZ.AU> carterp@deakin.OZ.AU (Phil Carter) writes: >>I have a PC with one serial port which I use for both communications >>and the mouse (obviously not both at the same time). >>Whenever I need to switch from communications to the mouse, or vice versa, >>I have to switch off the PC, swap cables to the serial port and reboot. >>QUESTION. Is there any way of avoiding the reboot? Is there any software >>that might help? >My Question: Have you ever tried not booting? I mean, just change the >cables and run the program? >Isn't your comm. software (or mouse driver) supposed to know how to initialize >the port? My Question: why not get a switchbox for about US$ 25? I would also recommend that you unload any memory-resident mouse drivers before you use the serial port for communications. +==========================================================================+ | Noam Mendelson ..!agate!ucbvax!web!c60b-1eq | "I haven't lost my mind, | | c60b-1eq@web.Berkeley.EDU | it's backed up on tape | | University of California at Berkeley | somewhere." |
josephc@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Simplelogic (Joseph)) (04/12/91)
jfv@cbnewsk.att.com (j.f.van valkenburg) writes: >In article <1264@sol.deakin.OZ.AU>, carterp@deakin.OZ.AU (Phil Carter) writes: >> I have a PC with one serial port which I use for both communications >> and the mouse (obviously not both at the same time). >> >> Whenever I need to switch from communications to the mouse, or vice versa, >> I have to switch off the PC, swap cables to the serial port and reboot. >> >> QUESTION. Is there any way of avoiding the reboot? Is there any software >> that might help? >> >> -- >> Phil Carter Computing Services Centre, >> Academic Programmer Deakin University, Warrnambool campus >I share my comm port between two serial printers with a simple A/B switch. >The common RS232 goes to the comm port - I haven't had any problems except Well, with a mouse, the situation is a bit different - your mouse drive software should have a way to disable itself. If not, and if you don't use the 2nd COM port, you can set your mouse driver to respond to IRQ 3 (COM2) instead of IRQ 4 (COM1) so that it won't process your serial communication on COM1. Personally, I'd just go out and buy a second serial port (if you don't already have one, that is [as is the case of the original poster].) Clone serial cards can be had for about $30... >------------------------ >James F. Van Valkenburg a.k.a. "van" >AT&T Attmail: !jfv jfv@cbnewsk.att.com >Atlanta, GA. Voice 404-873-7920 >=============================================================================== > ---- Standard Disclaimers included -- Just another grunt at AT&T ---- >=============================================================================== -- Joseph I. Chiu, Department of Computer Science, Calif. Inst. of Technology 1-57 Fleming House, Caltech, Pasadena 91126. (818) 585-0393 josephc@coil.caltech.edu ...I don't know what I don't know