[Discussion] PMFax and PCI modems

Carl Gehr Carl.Gehr at MCGCG.Com
Sun Feb 3 07:34:52 PST 2008


On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 07:35:06 -0700, Chuck McKinnis wrote:

>Carl Gehr wrote:
>> On Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:06:54 -0700, Chuck McKinnis wrote:
>> 
>>>> I probably should have asked before, even though my COM.SYS statements
>>>> are REM'd.  But, What does the '/F' actually mean?  I did a:
>>>>     HELP COM.SYS
>>>> and it does not indicate any switches or options other than the ones
>>>> that indicate the port,address for the device.
>>>>
>>>> TIA,
>>>> Carl
>>> From the COM.SYS driver that supports PCI ports readme:
>>>
>>> The COM DD with PCI support accepts the same CONFIG.SYS parameters as
>>> legacy COM DD (see OS/2 Command Reference) and three additional parameters:
>>> /V	Verbose mode
>>>         to display driver information about all accepted for service 
>>> COM ports.
>>> /W	Wait verbose mode.
>>>         Displaying pauses with a "Press Enter to continue..." message.
>>> /F      Find COM ports on PCI combo (serial/parallel) cards automatically.
>> 
>> Thanks, Chuck...
>> I'll file this for future reference.
>> 
>> I've looked all over the system for the file you refer to.  There's
>> obviously something key that I'm missing regarding it's name/location.
>> 
>> Carl
>
>PCIDEV.TBL should be in \OS2\BOOT if you have installed the COM.SYS 
>driver with PCI support.

I guess I must not have that support installed.  No such file there. 
Probably because I'm using a TPad.  I guess eCS would have installed it
if it found the hardware and I needed it.

Thanks again!
Carl




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