[WL-USERS] COM port cards - ByteRunner and ???

Steve Porten KN6OX sporten@ns.net
Thu, 10 Jun 1999 20:05:57 -0700


Jim

I am using a LavaPort650 PCI card with 2 com ports.  All I did was plug it in and
loaded the drivers.
It took no effort on my part to configure it.

I run 4 com ports (2 on board and the 2 LavaPort) at the same time most of the
time.  Com port 1 uses IRQ4 and is used by HyperLog to control my radio, Com port
2 uses IRQ 3 and is used by my TNC on the DX spotting cluster, Com port 3 IRQ 10
is used by my 56k modem connected to my ISP and Com port 4 also on IRQ 10 is used
by my WX200 Radio Shack weather station that up dates my Web Site with current
conditions every 30 minutes

My computer is a Pentium II 400 running Windows 98 and is networked to another
computer over a 10baseT Lan.

--
Steve Porten KN6OX
http://www.ns.net/~sporten



Rusty and Ann Auxier wrote:

> Hello!
> Here is what I have on that card...
> I just started subscribing to this reflector, so I don't have that much stuff
> saved, but I file 'em all away in a seperate folder.....
> 73 es cul
> de Rusty KG4AU
> Subject:
>         Re: [WL-USERS] COM Port Card
>    Date:
>         Thu, 6 May 1999 09:21:28 +0000
>    From:
>         "Barry Kutner" <w2up@mindspring.com>
>      To:
>         llewis@oao.com
>     CC:
>         WL-USERS@wu3v.net
>
> I use a Byterunner TC-400. It allows you to share 1 IRQ for the 4 COM
> ports. The ISA board was about $50, the PCI a little more expensive.
> Check them out at www.byterunner.com
> 73 Barry
> P.S. Just a satisfied user. No other affiliation with Byterunner
>
> On  6 May 99, llewis@oao.com <llewis@oao.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > I am a new user and have realized that I need ALOT (more than one) com ports
>
> > on my computer. Can anyone recommend source for multi-port com card.  I
> > tried to use the reference from the IRQ article on the WL home page, but
> > have to confess that I really don't know what to ask/look for.  Somewhat
> > technologically challanged here I confess (my shack computer until a month
> > ago was an Epson Equity-I (8088) screamer.
> >
> > Tnx, Lou, K0RI
> >
> --
> Barry Kutner, W2UP                            Internet: w2up@mindspring.com
> Newtown, PA                                   Frankford Radio Club
>
> Jim Reisert wrote:
>
> > A month or two ago, there was a discussion on this list by someone about
> > having to wait a long time to get a card, finding out it didn't work, then
> > trying another more expensive card that *did* work.  One of the cards was
> > ByteRunner.  I don't remember the name of the other.
> >
> > Since this list isn't archived, and I don't have any of the old messages,
> > could someone please foward me the names or brands of the two cards in
> > question?
> >
> > Thanks - Jim AD1C
> >
> > --
> > Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>
> > Home Page:  http://jjr.ne.mediaone.net/