[Discussion] PMFax and PCI modems

[Chuck McKinnis]

Carl Gehr wrote:
> 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

I think the install of com.sys with pci support is an option in the 
hardware tree.  eCS MT can also install the com.sys driver with pci support.


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