Hi John.
Well, I was not talking about irq's but, in effect, they are very much
involved. Com ports 1 & 3, for example, use the same irq, as do 2 & 4. So,
unless the operating system gets very sophisticated and manages to share
those irqs in an exotic way, 3 can't be used if 1 is active, 2 unusable if 4
is being used. And, yes, this laptop comes with about everything you can
think of in terms of its ability to talk to the outside work, from firewire
to u s b to infra red to wireless network, the works, all very nice unless
you want a functional com port. I suppose the rationale, not unreasonable,
is that the new u s b 2s, so lightening fast, will soon make rs232 ports
absolutely obsolete.
Cheers,
Jerry
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 4:56 PM
Subject: Re: laptops with u s b to com port converters
> Are you talking about IRQ's? or com ports, you shouldn't have anything on
> com ports, maybe a modem unless you really have bells and whistles, my
> gateway M505XL laptop didn't have any com ports used so my USB to serial
> adapter which when I put it in was assigned com 9 or something, 9 or 11 I
> forget, I was able to bring it right down to 1 with no problems at all.
If
> you have all those com ports used, I guess you really paid the price for
the
> bells and whistles, weight and nowhere to add anything, I like to start
> basic and add what I want.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jerry Neufeld" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 4:45 PM
> Subject: laptops with u s b to com port converters
>
>
> > Good afternoon folks.
> >
> > Some months ago, lusting after a laptop with a complete keyboard, that
is,
> > one with a full number pad, six-pack and all, I bought an HP7010, an
> > altogether delightful machine with every conceivable bell and whistle.
If
> > a
> > bit on the heavy side, a compromise between laptop and desktop, it does
> > everything I want, everything, that is but provide me with a serial port
> > for
> > my braille display. Fortunately, the Jaws jfw.ini file provides for
> > editing
> > the number of the com port used for braille displays, I able to change
it
> > to
> > com6.
> >
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