Need help with a serial port

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Rickey Moore wrote:
> 
> 
>     Steven W. Orr wrote:
>     > My new 'puter came with no serial port. For $2.49 I bought a pci card
>     > that has two serial ports and a parallel port. I plugged the card
>     in and
>     > rebooted. At boot kudzu ran but did not detect that anything new was
>     > going on. When I try to hook up my palm to the serial port I get this
>     > message:
> 
> Did you go into your bios setup to see if it needs enabled? Do you see
> it on startup being recognized? Might be worth a peek. Ric
> 
This is a PCI card. The BIOS does not control the ports on the card.
(Unless you have a BIOS that lets you disable PCI slots/interrupts.)

Mikkel
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