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.
>