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Article #88867Re: D2 Dos Direct Serial Connection Problem
From: Moon
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 10:09
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 10:09
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CharlieB wrote: > I am unable to set up the serial port in D2 in DOS. The com port is > definitely there because msd can find it. The address is 2f8 at irq 3 just > like a standard com 2 port but D2 cannot find it. When I try to select it > "No UART found" is returned. > > Any ideas what might be causing this? I have absolutely no idea but why not just build in a network card? Those are incredibly cheap these days, easy to setup and they can transfer tons of data. You don't even need a hub for 2 players. Consindering you've got an old PC it might even be cheaper to by some used ISA card on ebay.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!internal1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ash.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!firehose2!nntp4!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!border3.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!small1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp2.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!ngpeer.news.aol.com!feed2.newsreader.com!newsreader.com!news2.telebyte.nl!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-ham1.dfn.de!news.uni-hamburg.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-duisburg.de!not-for-mail From: Moon <Moon@Uni-Duisburg.de> Newsgroups: alt.games.descent Subject: Re: D2 Dos Direct Serial Connection Problem Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 11:09:19 +0100 Organization: Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet -GH- Duisburg Lines: 15 Message-ID: <MPG.1a40e110b0a84c11989746@news.uni-duisburg.de> References: <GVQAb.1451$2S4.741@fe10> NNTP-Posting-Host: athome10.uni-duisburg.de Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de 1071050897 27571 134.91.17.20 (10 Dec 2003 10:08:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 10:08:17 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.60.2057 X-no-archive: yes Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit