As Carl and Dave said, you don't use a comport for your network card. It
does use up an IRQ though, and that may be a problem.
Given what you have told us, I would suggest you put in a serial port switch
on com 2 and switch to an external modem when you want to do FAX.
Also, you may want to look into connecting your HotSync for your Palm etc.
via a USB port to free up Com 4.
USB is faster too.
If you can do the USB route for your PDA, you won't need a switch for Com 2.
Put the modem on Com 4 then.
NJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Russ Connors" <aa2gs@isoc.net>
To: <ct-user@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 5:48 AM
Subject: [ct-user] Never enough com ports
> Need some advice, please.
>
> I have com ports tied up with: (1) Radio control; (2) TNC (expendable
> for non RTTY tests);and (3) HotSynch manager grabs COM 4 and practically
> owns unless I go in and physically say disable.
>
> Not I want to add WinFax Pro which will want a COM port (I presume). I
> already lost the ability to use my modem because of no COM port
> available.
>
> Do I have enough COM ports to do what I want and just need to
> reconfigure them? Forgot to mention I'm using ADSL so I have a network
> card for that which I presume uses a COM port.
>
> COMport challenged,
>
> Russ
> AA2GS
>
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