re two pointing devices in one com port bob davis sonny trantor harris atd com wrote in article c tkgm v unix portal com wil shell portal com ville v walveranta writes is there any way to connect two pointing devices to one serial port i haven t tried this but i believe they would interfere with each other even if only one at a time would be used just get an a b switch for rs look in computer shopper they are available fairly cheap they allow switching between two serial devices on a single port unfortunately the poster wants to use an internal and an external modem so a switch isn t going to help them if you aren t using your com ports for anything else just define them on different com ports define your internal modem to be say com and your external modem to be com you really shouldn t have to worry about interrupt conflicts since you won t be using both modems at the same time christopher chan nui investment in reliability will increase until it channui austin ibm com exceeds the probable cost of errors or until someone include disclaimer h insists on getting some useful work done
